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The Conway

Chronicles

A series of urban fantasy style stories set in rural Lancashire.

Mary Conway* has worked herself up from a care assistant in a Senior Citizens home (where she discovered she could communicate with the spirits of the dead) through college and university and has just qualified as a Doctor of Philosophy She has also, with the help of one of the descendents of the original Pendle Witches, become a powerful witch in her own right. She is spending the summer of 2021 looking for a new home for herself before setting out on a career spreading the word by lecturing and teaching witchcraft.

The first three stories include werewolves, elves, vampires and other strange creatures as Mary is called on to use her powers.

* Mary first appears in ‘The Demdike Legacy’, the second of the Detective Chief Inspector Stone Supernatural Crime novels.