A rock-and-roll epic with one carefully threaded supernatural element.
Cold Heart October
In 1994, a nineteen-year-old Mick Grady stepped onto a Dublin stage and did something no one could explain. Thirty years later, retreated to a tiny west of Ireland village and refusing to sing, he's filmed at his fiftieth birthday party and the clip goes viral overnight. A YouTuber who tracks down the unexplained gets on the next flight to Clare. For fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and High Fidelity.
Link: adameccles.link/cho
A time-travel love story that takes its science seriously and its heartbreak more seriously.
Need a Little Time
When Jamie Newgent's life implodes - his wife cheats, his business crumbles - he retreats to a gloomy bachelor pad on the fourth floor of a converted office block. What he finds there is a spiral staircase that shouldn't exist. And upstairs, a woman called Anna who changes everything.
Link: adameccles.link/nalt
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A techno-thriller where the hero is a night-shift IT bloke who hates daylight.
22:22:22 Frequency Shift
Toby Steele is a night-shift tech support guy - quiet, overlooked, coasting beneath the radar. Until the night of 22 February 2022. At exactly 22:22:22, something activates. Something that was never meant to be triggered again. Suddenly Toby is changed. Faster, stronger, sharper. And tangled up with a centenarian codebreaker, a missing granddaughter, and a shadowy government agency that wants the code that changed him.
Link: adameccles.link/ts1
Also in audio: adameccles.link/ts1-audio
Even heroes can be broken.
23:23:23 Power Shift
Toby Steele is back - stronger, faster, and more dangerous than ever. Six months after a rogue computer program transformed him into a reluctant vigilante, Toby has mastered his powers and embraced his mission to protect the innocent. But when he crosses paths with Lorelei - a dangerous temptress with her own agenda - Toby is pulled into a tangle of seduction and betrayal.
Link: adameccles.link/ts2
For anyone who grew up with a CRT and a controller, and has ever wished they could go back to before everything got complicated.
System Restored
Derek Cooper just turned forty, and life hit "Game Over." Dead-end job, lovelorn, hiding from adulthood behind mountains of vintage consoles. Then he finds Time Portal - a mythical arcade cabinet whispered about in retro forums, long thought destroyed. But this machine doesn't just play games. It plays with time.
Link: adameccles.link/sysrest
Also in audio: adameccles.link/sysrest-audio
A romcom for people who build chatbots instead of going on dates.
Significant Other Machine
Love is messy. Algorithms are not. Sam Oldfield prefers systems that behave predictably - computers do, people don't. Then her mother, fuelled by martinis and good intentions, buys her a Wi-Fi-enabled sex toy for her birthday. Naturally, Sam hacks it. What she ends up building is something unexpectedly compelling.
Link: adameccles.link/som
A dinner-party romcom that quietly becomes something stranger and much older without changing voice.
The Soul Bank
Andy Clarke has stayed in a hundred business hotels. He doesn't expect anything from a one-night stopover near an industrial estate in the Home Counties. He especially doesn't expect what happens afterwards. Vivid, intimate dreams of a woman he's never met. A life that feels more real than his actual one. The hotel did something to him.
Link: adameccles.link/soulbank
A divorced-dad romcom that's funny on every page.
Who Needs Love, Anyway?
Danny Watts has two ex-wives, two kids, and roughly zero romantic prospects. It's not for lack of trying. He's surrounded by women - at work, at school pickup, everywhere - and every single one of them thinks he's a lovely bloke. A great friend. Basically, a golden retriever in a dad's body. Then a woman calls needing help.
Link: adameccles.link/wnla
A romcom with bite.
The Twin Flame Game
Keith Myatt has everything: money, hotels, and a different woman in every city. What he doesn't have is anywhere he'd call home, anyone he'd call his, or a single reason to stop moving. Then a date in a London hotel bar tells him he's not her twin flame - one soul split in two, destined to find its other half - and somehow, this ridiculous idea gets under his skin.
Link: adameccles.link/ttfg
See where it all started.
Time, for a Change
Terry Ward has spent a decade in the same IT job, sitting through the same pointless conference calls, watching the same slug-like middle managers strut past his desk. He's not bitter. He's just very, very tired. When the bank forces his hand, he drives out to his late father's remote Irish workshop to clear the place out. What he finds is a wooden box, still humming, with his father's handwriting on the lid.
Link: adameccles.link/tfac