Like most inhabitants of Dunn Eideann, Ismail and his ex-husband Toki are divided by class and circumstance. Toki, a cybernetic upgrade human, is part of the city elite; baseline human Ismail is a down-at-heel cop. Their brief marriage failed when Toki walked out, but now he’s back, seeking Ismail’s help against Hanuman, a malicious cyber-intelligence that plans to poison the water supply of all baseline humans in the city. Now Ismail and Toki must find the underground reservoir targeted by Hanuman before time runs out for them both.
Kate Cotoner lives in the north of England with her OH and a demanding bonsai named Mr M. She has a fondness for Asian men tempered with a love of hunky Germanic and Mediterranean types, and manages to combine love for all three types whilst watching Formula One motorsport. She loves history, needlepoint, reading, watching brainless blockbusters and meaningful foreign films, staring at US crime shows, and baking French-style bread. She likes strong, plot-driven stories and charismatic characters set against a sweeping, romantic backdrop of history, suspense, international locations and whatever else happens to take her fancy at the time.