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C.N. Rowan

"The best debut novel I've ever read!" - Heather G Harris, Best-Selling Author of the Other Realm SeriesAfter hundreds of years of dying, you'd think I would've perfected it by now...
One moment I'm a heretical priest in the twelfth century, hunted, hated...The next, I'm waking up in the nearest corpse. Stuck in a cycle of instant reincarnation, popping back up like a tarnished penny.

Fast forward eight hundred years, and you might think I've learned a thing or two. Nope. All I've learned is how to die far too easily, far too often.

Now my territory in the South of France is under threat and I find myself trapped by impossible angel-made runes. If the angels have gone full red lightsaber evil, it might not only be my territory in danger, but the whole of reality itself...

I need to stop whoever is behind this, and now. After all, you can't come back to life, if there's nothing left to come back to.

This omnibus collects the first three books of the award-winning "imPerfect Cathar series" - "imPerfect Magic", "imPerfect Curse" & "imPerfect Fae" - as well as the never-before published short story "The Dark Of The Water's Edge".

If you can't wisecrack while death is on the line? Well... perhaps you're not dying right.

Winner "Best Supernatural Thriller Series" at the Audiobook Reviewer Awards 2023.

Main Rock Publishing

The imPerfect Cathar

imPerfect Beginnings: The First imPerfect Cathar Trilogy Omnibus - An Urban Fantasy Collection

The walls between the worlds are thin. The nights draw in. And monsters walk abroad…

October 30th, 1958. France’s papers are haunted by the spectre of the Algerian War of Independence. But that still doesn’t explain why they’re silent about a child’s skeleton, washed up on a French beach. No stories, no breaking news. Nothing but a set of police photos, delivered anonymously to my hands. And bite marks on the skeleton, too big for any human to have made.

So my best friend, Aicha, and I head to the city of Nice to investigate. But what we find is more missing children, and an emerging pattern. One that raises some terrifying questions. Who would abduct and sacrifice children? Why isn’t the news getting out? What would demand such a sacrifice? And what terrors might it offer as payment in return?

We need to find out fast to save the children, if they can be saved. And maybe save the whole of France at the same time.

An imPerfect Samhain is a standalone novella in the best-selling “imPerfect Cathar” series. You can expect dark humour, strong language and explicit violence.

An imPerfect Samhain: A Standalone Novella from the imPerfect Cathar Universe

A free short story from The imPerfect Cathar.

'There’s an irony about how often the elements are used to kill those supposedly capable of controlling them. Water. Fire. Air. Earth.

 

Drowning. Burning. Hanging. Burying them alive.

 

Those so keen to use such tools to instil terror and keep the population silent best hope they never capture a true Talented...'

 

This short story finds Paul Bonhomme, at the start of the 16th Century, discovering brutal goings-on in his home city of Toulouse after time away. When a local businessman is using the cruel threats of the inquisition to have his way with a hapless population, particularly its women-folk, the imPerfect Cathar himself is happy to teach him a lesson.

The Gabia's Justice: A short story from the world of The imPerfect Cathar

After hundreds of years of dying, you'd think I would've perfected it by now...

One moment I'm a heretical priest in the twelfth century, hunted, hated...The next, I'm waking up in the nearest corpse. Stuck in a cycle of instant reincarnation, popping back up like a tarnished penny.

Fast forward eight hundred years, and you might think I’ve learned a thing or two. Nope. All I've learned is how to die far too easily, far too often.

Now my territory in the South of France is under threat and I find myself trapped by impossible angel-made runes. If the angels have gone full red lightsaber evil, it might not only be my territory in danger, but the whole of reality itself...

I need to stop whoever is behind this, and now. After all, you can’t come back to life, if there’s nothing left to come back to.

"imPerfect Magic" is the first book in "The imPerfect Cathar" series, a darkly funny supernatural suspense following a trio of immortal heretics. If you can't wisecrack while death is on the line? Well... perhaps you're not dying right.

This book contains strong language, dark humour and graphic violence.

AWARDS -
BEST SUPERNATURAL THRILLER SERIES - AUDIOBOOK REVIEWER AWARDS 2023 OFFICIAL FINALIST 2023 - FANTASY - INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDSSECOND PLACE SEMI-FINALIST - FANTASY-FACTION - SPFBO9

imPerfect Magic: A Darkly Funny Supernatural Suspense Mystery

The problem with ancient promises? There's always a price to pay.

I’m exhausted. Done in. Needing a stiff drink and about a week’s sleep. But that’s not going to happen.

Because Franc is dying, struck by a curse placed on him by the Sistren Of Bordeaux, one of the most powerful groups of Talented in France. And because of our deal, it’s on me to find out what the hell is going on, and how Franc has offended the Sistren. Apart from by simply existing, of course.

Except a simple trip to Bordeaux turns into a living nightmare as the past comes back to not just haunt me but to kick me square in the nuts, and I'm sent to the one place no Talented ever wants to go. Where those with magic either vanish or get ruined, left as nothing but empty husks.

This time, it might not be the world at risk.

It might be my very soul.

imPerfect Curse is the second book in The imPerfect Cathar series, a darkly funny supernatural suspense mystery following a trio of immortal heretics in the south-west of France. Contains strong language and violence.

BEST SUPERNATURAL THRILLER SERIES - AUDIOBOOK REVIEWER AWARDS 2023

imPerfect Curse: A Darkly Funny Supernatural Suspense Mystery

Body-jacking a legendary assassin when I’m running on empty. No problem, right?

After the last few misadventures, I’m not so much broken as ruined, a shell of my former self. But I can’t stop. The trail of those who betrayed me is getting cold, and if I’m going to get any answers, I need to follow it, and now.

Except it leads to Faerie. And the way is barred to all but the Fae.

So I’m forced to go toe-to-toe with a mercenary assassin whose name has been spoken in terrified whispers throughout the ages. One who got the drop on me the only time our paths crossed.

The Jack of Plate. Half-Marred Jack himself. A man who may be more than a monster.

Survival isn’t just unsure. It’s highly unlikely.

imPerfect Fae is the third book in The imPerfect Cathar series, a darkly funny supernatural suspense mystery following a trio of immortal heretics in the south of France. Contains strong language and violence.

﻿BEST SUPERNATURAL THRILLER SERIES - AUDIOBOOK REVIEWER AWARDS 2023

imPerfect Fae: A Darkly Funny Supernatural Suspense Mystery

The good news? There’s a way out of Fairie. The bad news? It’s through the heart of the Unseelie Court of Winter.

And that’s not all. Maeve, Winter’s ruler, has been stealing human kids for her own twisted delights. Not only do we have to find a way to sneak into her lands, but also we’ve got to break in, rescue the stolen children and get them out again without her knowing. Or ... we go to war with the entire nightmarish Unseelie Court.

I’m not so much running on empty as trying to push myself forward with the handbrake on. The odds of survival seem minimal. But who wants to live forever? 800 years is good innings by anyone's standards.

I can't leave the kids behind to suffer her sadistic indulgences. We’ve got to get them out - or die trying.

imPerfect Bones is the fourth book in ‘The imPerfect Cathar’ series, a darkly funny supernatural suspense mystery spanning Fairie and the south of France. Contains strong language and graphic violence.

﻿BEST SUPERNATURAL THRILLER SERIES - AUDIOBOOK REVIEWER AWARDS 2023

imPerfect Bones: A Darkly Funny Supernatural Suspense Mystery

At last a warm trail, through blood and bones and long dead kings. The hunt is on…

We’re back in Toulouse, and for once we have the upper hand. Our foe has no idea I’ve escaped from his trap in Fairie and we’ve got an actual lead. The famous discovery of a certain hunchbacked English king’s remains gives us a tantalizing clue, and now we’re hot on our enemy’s heels with him none the wiser.

Except nothing ever runs that smoothly. Hob kings, goth vampires and back-stabbing double-crosses are all lying in wait. And that’s just for starters.

To make it back to France we’re going to need serious magic, might and high-level brainpower.

Two out of three’s not bad, right?

Because if we don’t manage it, the hunter might just become the hunted.

imPerfect Hunt is a darkly funny supernatural suspense mystery that spans the south of France, England and Paris. Contains dark humour and graphic violence.

﻿BEST SUPERNATURAL THRILLER SERIES - AUDIOBOOK REVIEWER AWARDS 2023

imPerfect Hunt: A Darkly Funny Supernatural Suspense Mystery

And so it comes to this. A showdown. An ending. But if we fail – if I end – then reality might follow along behind me.

We’ve been through so much. Torture. Murder. Trap after trap mainly sprung by me blundering head first into them and one of my friends saving my stupid behind.

But there’s no room for mistakes now.

We’ve got an inkling of what the scumbag we’re up against is after. Enough to know what his next target is. Enough to know it’s probably his last one. Enough to know it’s everything he needs to complete his nefarious plans.

If we don’t get there first, he wins. Simple. And I’m not sure … but my gut says if that happens, every living thing in the universe loses.

No pressure, right?

imPerfect Gods is the sixth book in The imPerfect Cathar series, and completes the first story arc. It is a darkly funny supernatural suspense mystery, containing strong language and graphic violence.

﻿BEST SUPERNATURAL THRILLER SERIES - AUDIOBOOK REVIEWER AWARDS 2023

imPerfect Gods: A Darkly Funny Supernatural Suspense Mystery

What would you sacrifice to get back those you’ve loved and lost?

In the months since our battle on the top of Bugarach, I’ve been obsessed with the search for those taken from us, to find a way to bring them back. But my single-minded obsession means I’ve not noticed the trouble brewing closer to home.

Except I ignore a friend’s cry for help, and they disappear. What might my refusal cost? And what else have I missed in my blinkered state? What other threats that I never saw, right under my nose?

Trouble isn’t brewing after all, it’s already steeped. Friends are in danger beyond their abilities to save themselves. Problem is, magic or no, it might just be beyond mine too...

‘imPerfect Blood’ is the seventh book in the award-winning imPerfect Cathar series, where a fresh, exciting story starts for Paul Bonhomme and his friends. Interweaving French mythology and history to a magical modern day urban fantasy, you can expect dark humour, snark, strong language and graphic violence.

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