Books by Matilda Scotney

The second book in The Soul Monger series.Laurel's journey through time and space continues as she seeks to uncover the origins of the whole souls and the source of their remarkable powers.One war ends. Another begins.Laurel's shock at being rescued by the Soul Monger is pushed aside as she battles the enemy on the homeworld of Gartrya. She secures the weapon so desperately needed to destroy the fortress, but victory comes at a price. Deploying the weapon condemns Gabriel to certain death, and as Laurel, Helen and Darlen engage the enemy in an effort to escape Gartrya and rescue Gabriel's family, his mother is killed, and Laurel is seriously wounded.With the knowledge that Canon Akkuh is responsible for the massacre of the Semevalians, Laurel must now expose the ancient sins of the League. To that end, she must commit treason, and in so doing, uncovers a mystery that leads her on a quest to find the origins of the whole souls and embark on a journey that will take her to the ends of the universe.

The practise was ancient. And profitable. For centuries the Soul Mongers crossed the mysterious Transcender portal that linked their universe to ours. Their mission?Whole souls. The name they gave to humans.But it was only in the Soul Monger's universe our remarkable potential could be fully realised; only there did we learn just how truly unique we are.And how prized we would become.As slaves.In time, an enlightened and benevolent League became the symbol of a new order and many systems and worlds were drawn to a new awareness. Trade and commerce between the Treaty planets flourished and slavery was outlawed. With the Transcender sealed and denied their secret access to our world, the Soul Mongers and their vile trade all but died out. The legends of whole souls faded into history.Until an unnamed enemy rose, waging a fierce and merciless onslaught the peaceful League were powerless to withstand, unless they once more acquired the deadliest weapon known to their universe.Us. And only the very last of the Soul Mongers knew where we were.

You don't always go to heaven when you die. Alice didn't. She ended up on a space station orbiting Saturn 500 years into the future. And then the real mystery began.Time's attention must have been elsewhere the moment old, grey, unsophisticated Alice Watkins died in her armchair a few days before her birthday in November 2016.It still wasn't minding what it was doing on Saturn Station in the year 2513.Dr Jim Grossmith, one of the most eminent scientists of the age has devoted his career to The Sleeping Beauty Phenomenon, guarding the beautiful, red-haired young woman who sleeps peacefully, in a mysterious sarcophagus, her life perfectly suspended, her body preserved in a strange fluid. The woman, cocooned in her protective shell has defied scientific analysis for almost four hundred years. History recorded little, only that she is Dr Alexis Langley, a noted scientist of her time.When the sarcophagus opens and vanishes without a trace, leaving the young woman in his care, Jim Grossmith eagerly awaits the day when she can tell him the manner of her preservation. A strange science, lost in the annals of the past? Alien technology?But as he learns her story, Jim Grossmith finds himself faced with an even deeper mystery. He is certain the physical form of Dr Alexis Langley emerged from the sarcophagus, but as for anything else…