Books by Jo Sparkes

On a Caribbean dive vacation, five friends discover a centuries old shipwreck - and a karmic debt past due.  Wall Eddington has always done the correct thing. It''s part of being British, part of family tradition. Yet someone drowned.Now, half a world away, he''s diving off an old sailboat with four American friends. As a vacation it''s a bit primitive, but just what his soul craves.Untouched and impossibly preserved, the thing bewitches with promises of gold. Their rush to claim it bogs down with odd accidents and petty arguments - and Wall is not the only one with dark dreams of pain and torture. Dreams of a captain called Sadico. In fleeing his personal demon, Wall has run straight to its lair. This trap was laid centuries ago, for five souls moved on to new lives and new loves. Set by the one soul they left behind. 

The Women of Agben use herbs to heal and enhance only. Yet Marra saw a third use, one with a brew that can detect a prince and a potion to hide a creature’s appearance. A forbidden art being wielded against the throne.Its source thrives on the Dim Continent.Journeying with her mentor to this fabled place, Marra stumbles on another secret. Agben includes Terrin females - the same hairy creatures that kidnapped a king. Now the trust binding them together is rapidly corroding.She doesn’t know Prince Tryst has pursued the traitors to this wild, dangerous land. Or that Drail travels with him, providing gamesmen cover.In a land of strange beings and dangerous animals, the three friends must again pool their skills. This time not just to save themselves – but to save all their people. The fate of Skullan and Trumen alike hinge on defeating a powerful enemy, with a centuries-old plot. The final battle looms in the heart of his power – the Dim Continent. The Legend of The GamesmenMore than a sport, the gamesmen stand for an idea - that humble men can win the day. That the lowly are not so low, and the least of men may yet succeed. A fable told across the three continents.This is the tale that launched the legend.

It should have been a happy ending. A Prince restored, victory in the black arena. Instead the band of friends shatters against an evil conspiracy.Refusing to endanger one man or burden another, Marra flees to the Agben School. Agben, whose ancient walls have held for a thousand years, protecting those within as they sought to harness the power of nature.But this evil is relentless, and the school may not be the safe ground she thought. In fact it may not be anything she thought. Cut off from the only friends she knew, Marra discovers more than her life hangs in the balance.For the future of her race – of both races – depends not on a prince trying to save his people, nor the heroic men who’d brought them this far.Everything depends on her. The Legend of The GamesmenMore than a sport, the gamesmen stand for an idea - that humble men can win the day. That the lowly are not so low, and the least of men may yet succeed. A fable told across the three continents.This is the tale that launched the legend.