The Witch Hunter Chronicles is a guns blazing, action-packed adventure series set during the seventeenth century.
This was an age of haughty duellists who drew their rapiers at the slightest provocation; of masked highwaymen, waiting in ambush behind thickets along country byways; of Spanish galleons, laden with treasure from the New World; of battle-scarred pirate sloops lurking in secret smugglers' coves; of mercenaries - dogs of war - who drifted from country to country, hiring their swords to the highest bidder; of Barbary corsairs who roamed the Mediterranean in slave galleys; and of daring voyages into the Orient and the dark heart of Africa.
But above all, it was the age of the witch hunters.
This was an age of haughty duellists who drew their rapiers at the slightest provocation; of masked highwaymen, waiting in ambush behind thickets along country byways; of Spanish galleons, laden with treasure from the New World; of battle-scarred pirate sloops lurking in secret smugglers' coves; of mercenaries - dogs of war - who drifted from country to country, hiring their swords to the highest bidder; of Barbary corsairs who roamed the Mediterranean in slave galleys; and of daring voyages into the Orient and the dark heart of Africa.
But above all, it was the age of the witch hunters.
Book 1: The Scourge of Jericho
It is 1666. The forces of darkness are spreading across Europe. Dreaming of wielding a blade in epic battles like the father he never knew, Jakob von Drachenfels falsifies a letter of introduction to join the Hexenjäger – an elite military order of witch hunters. He soon learns a lesson in the dangers of ambition when he finds himself selected for a team sent to recover a biblical relic from a witch-infested castle. But when the team is betrayed from within, what was already a difficult mission turns into a desperate struggle for survival.
Release date: 1 July 2011
The Witch Hunter Chronicles teachers' resource kit.
Release date: 1 July 2011
The Witch Hunter Chronicles teachers' resource kit.
Book 2: The Army of the Undead
The Watchers.
Four fallen angels who have roamed the earth for several millennia, searching for the Tablet of Breaking – a device which, when activated, will destroy the world.
When the resurrected corpse of a prophet reveals that the relic lies hidden in the lost city of Sodom, Jakob and his companions, their blades stick slick with the blood of slain witches, are sent to locate the Tablet before it falls into the hands of the Watchers. Pursued by an army of undead, the mission is a desperate race against time. From the cliff-top monasteries of Meteora to a trap-riddled mausoleum lying at the bottom of the Dead Sea, the Hexenjäger must stay one step ahead of the fallen angels. For the cost of failure will mean Armageddon!
Release date: 1 November 2011
Four fallen angels who have roamed the earth for several millennia, searching for the Tablet of Breaking – a device which, when activated, will destroy the world.
When the resurrected corpse of a prophet reveals that the relic lies hidden in the lost city of Sodom, Jakob and his companions, their blades stick slick with the blood of slain witches, are sent to locate the Tablet before it falls into the hands of the Watchers. Pursued by an army of undead, the mission is a desperate race against time. From the cliff-top monasteries of Meteora to a trap-riddled mausoleum lying at the bottom of the Dead Sea, the Hexenjäger must stay one step ahead of the fallen angels. For the cost of failure will mean Armageddon!
Release date: 1 November 2011
Book 3: The Devil's Fire
It is said that the Codex Gigas contains a spell for summoning the Prince of Darkness. So when the medieval bible is stolen by demonic soldiers known as the Sons of Cain, Jakob and his companions form an alliance with an order of English witch hunters and race to London to prevent a horrific prophecy from being fulfilled.
Whether battling his way into the gaols of Rotterdam or crossing blades with the Sons of Cain during the Great Fire of London, this will be Jakob's most perilous mission yet.
Whether battling his way into the gaols of Rotterdam or crossing blades with the Sons of Cain during the Great Fire of London, this will be Jakob's most perilous mission yet.