‘Fey City – a place for their world, in our world.’

1887 and the skies above London open, heralding the return of the Fey – Elves, Minotaurs and Demonia, lost to for millennia but for their echoes in myth and legend. Refugees from an eternal war, fighting to return to our mortal world, they brought with them impossible wealth in gold and jewels and the last, slightest fragment of magic. Us humans welcomed them home…

…well…not exactly.

After over a century of their getting involved in our tangled politics, taking sides in the World Wars and not always the right ones, it was proposed that a new homeland should be built for the Fey. An island city off the coast of Britain, an otherworldly mirror of London in the North Sea, reached by a single train line, glorious under a shimmering dome of dark light. The City was grown from that tiny big of magic that had been kept safe since the Fey returned, and by the year 2,000 it’s ready.

Divided into three between Elves, Minotaurs and Demonia – a rag-tag race of humanoids with a hard to pin down morphology – The City is in our world but not of our world, a homeland that welcomes all Fey and the Fey aligned – oh but of course it was never going to be that easy – no least because not all the Fey are on board and, well, there’s be a lot of interbreeding since they arrived – humans being what they are.

If technology we don’t understand is magic, is magic we don’t understand just another technology?

In Fey City One, bad billionaire Argent Carell is tempted by the Elves of Fey City to a secret meeting , where he’s offered the chance at a source of magic no one else suspects exists, and through it a way to gain control of the UK, then the world, under the guise of making everything better.

In the meantime Hazel – a teenage girl with a secret greater than her crush on the beautiful but dangerous Abigail she meets in detention – grows up in the world he’s creating – she its victim, its refugee, its heart.

Fey City holds a dark, smoky mirror up to our world, exploring its concerns around culture cohesion, the choice between separatism and assimilation, privacy and dark tech, with a queer love story at its heart, and minotaurs at its edges.

Read it while it’s still fiction.

RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 2026