A well-meaning young bookkeeper is recruited into a bizarre family business hunting spirits, only to find himself caught between supernatural dangers, a deadly conspiracy, and two people he desperately wants to protect.It's the year 1871, and an unlikely trio patrol the foggy, gaslit streets of London.The Professor: A brilliant, eccentric inventor who can unleash supernatural forces in pursuit of a breakthrough, then complain about the cost of the brandy needed for his recovery.Roberta Twickham: A fiercely capable mechanic and spirit-catcher who keeps her father, his business and half the supernatural world under control... usually without his help.Septimus Jones: A conscientious, inexperienced bookkeeper who stumbles into deadly supernatural dangers, falls in love, and gets blackmailed... while desperately trying to behave like a respectable gentleman. Often dead, or nearly.Now Septimus must choose which to betray before someone dies."A steampunk version of Ghostbusters with just a dash of romance and mystery" - Hidden Gems reviews Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html A trio of ghost hunters working in Victorian London, 1871
