<div>&ldquo;An exciting new steampunk adventure&rdquo; featuring living machines, murderous betrayals, and Ireland&rsquo;s most ruthless family (School Library Journal). The slow collapse of the British Empire in the nineteenth century meant opportunity for anyone with ammunition and wit. Now the Wildensterns are by far the most powerful family&mdash;and the most ruthless. Trained from childhood in the arts of assassination and conspiracy and endowed with the supernatural ability to live for more than a century, the clan has grown rich, vicious, and seemingly invincible. After nearly two years away, eighteen-year-old Nate has returned. But his homecoming is shattered when his eldest brother, Marcus, is mysteriously killed. Following the Rules of Ascension, which allow one male family member to murder another, Nate is being blamed. Nate knows he isn&rsquo;t the murderer, but who is? With the help of his sister-in-law, Daisy, and his cousin Gerald, Nate intends to find out. Their investigation brings them into the underbelly of the Wildenstern empire, where living machines, conspiring relatives, and undercover mercenaries do their dirty work. But when a disaster uncovers the ancient remains of Wildenstern ancestors, the lives of the family members and their struggle for power will take a bizarre and gruesome turn.</div>

Ancient Appetites

<div>Are you being watched? Before she turns twenty-one, Amina Mir intends to have one of her stories published on the front page of the Chronicle. So when she gets an internship there, she&rsquo;s thrilled, even if it means a summer making coffee and writing human-interest stories. Then she interviews Ivor McMorris. A veteran of the war in Sinnostan, Ivor is convinced that someone interfered with his memories while he was there&mdash;but if he does anything about it, the watchers will make him disappear. At first, Amina is skeptical. As the daughter of a major in the Royal Marines, she knows that veterans often suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder. But when she meets Chi Sandwith, a conspiracy investigator who has spoken to dozens of soldiers like Ivor, Amina realizes that she may have stumbled upon the biggest and most terrifying government cover-up ever. Now if only she can break the story before disappearing herself. </div>

Strangled Silence

<div>If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear . . . Four young thieves, one simple mission: Steal a black-leather box from the daughter of a murdered scientist without anyone noticing. But WatchWorld controls London now, and the organization knows everything. Every major street is monitored with heat-sensitive and X-ray cameras. Microphones record voices from hundreds of feet away, and drones watch from the sky. Patrolling the streets are Safe-Guards&mdash;part human and part robot, they can see through walls, hear your heartbeat, and analyze your sweat. But staying hidden is what Nimmo, Scope, Manikin, and FX do best. Using the city&rsquo;s blind spots, they navigate the criminal underworld until they&rsquo;re caught in a rat run of murder and deceit that might not let them out alive. </div>

Rat Runners

<div>While investigating a series of mysterious murders, Nate uncovers dark secrets that threaten to reveal the true nature of the Wildenstern family The British Empire is no longer the authority it once was. Instead, it&rsquo;s controlled by private business organizations&mdash;the most powerful of which is Ireland&rsquo;s ruthless Wildenstern family. Eighteen-year-old Nathaniel Wildenstern has given up his dreams of travel and adventure to devote himself to being his brother Berto&rsquo;s head of security. With the help of his wife, Daisy, Berto wants to change the barbaric ways of the clan. But there are many among the Wildensterns who like things the way they are, and will resort to whatever devious methods necessary to keep them that way. Meanwhile, the burned bodies of women are appearing around Dublin. When a connection to the Wildenstern family is discovered, Nate, Daisy, and Nate&rsquo;s sister Tatiana decide to investigate. Soon they are digging into shadowy societies and dark family secrets that date back to the origin of the part-animal, part-machine enigmals. And what the young Wildensterns find could shed light on the savage nature of their family itself.</div>

The Wisdom of Dead Men

<div>There&rsquo;s no such thing as escaping the Wildensterns . . . It&rsquo;s been three years since Nathaniel Wildenstern left Ireland and his ruthless family behind. But no one turns his back on the Wildensterns, the powerful family controlling what was once the British Empire. While Nate&rsquo;s been gone, one of his maniacal cousins has been hard at work researching engimals&mdash;the bizarre living machines with the brains of animals&mdash;with the intent of creating the ultimate new species. When Nate learns what his cousin has been up to, he knows he must return and put a stop to it. But in his absence, his clan has become even more despised for its merciless hunger for power. For Nate to succeed, he&rsquo;ll have to return in secret&mdash;because wherever the Wildensterns go, violence and betrayal are sure to follow. </div>

Merciless Reason

<div>Can four young lawbreakers outsmart London&rsquo;s most powerful gangster? Scope is not your average teenager. A self-described criminal nerd, she spends most of her time cleaning up forensic messes and faking evidence. When you work for Move-Easy, London&rsquo;s most powerful thug, life is never boring. But WatchWorld owns the city now, and running an illegal empire is no easy feat. Cameras, drones, and heat sensors line the streets and stalk the skies while Safe-Guards, the part-human, part-robot police, patrol the city and enter homes with impunity. Everyone knows that crossing Move-Easy means certain and painful death. So when he sends Scope and several other rat runners&mdash;young outlaws who evade detection by traveling through the city&rsquo;s Voids&mdash;to track down one of Easy&rsquo;s old enemies, they know they have no choice. But what if the target is innocent? Can Scope spoil the kill, or will doing so make her Easy&rsquo;s next mark? This is a Rat Runners novella. For the full experience, be sure to read Rat Runners by Ois&iacute;n McGann, available January 13, 2015. </div>

Spoil the Kill

<div>A young journalist uncovers what might be the world&rsquo;s biggest conspiracy&mdash;if only he can prove it For years, Chi Sandwith has written about things like alien abductions, puppet masters, and brainwashing. He&rsquo;s not a &ldquo;conspiracy theorist&rdquo; though&mdash;he&rsquo;s a serious journalist and a seeker of the Truth. When Chi meets a man who claims to be a former secret agent, it looks like evidence of a huge conspiracy has landed right in the reporter&rsquo;s lap. But can Chi believe a single word he hears from the professional liar? And why is the old spook so intent on introducing Chi to a woman who could expose the agent&rsquo;s dark past? Over the course of 1 day, Chi is faced with spies, anarchists, a tough-as-nails policewoman, a highly valuable refrigerator, and a very harsh truth: He is a rank amateur in a world of dangerous professionals . . . The Need for Fear is a companion novella to Strangled Silence. </div>

The Need for Fear

<div>The young wife of the most powerful man in Ireland has been kidnapped, and Nate and Gerald must save her&mdash;from their own family, if necessary While her husband is away on business, Daisy Wildenstern buys a shape-shifting engimal from the charming adventurer Peter Barnum. The origins of the part-animal, part-machine being are a mystery. Life is cruel in Daisy&rsquo;s family. Trained from childhood to be merciless predators, the Wildensterns are taught to trust no one&mdash;especially not their treacherous relatives. As long as their reputation stays intact, nothing is considered unacceptable on their quest for wealth and power. But Daisy belongs to a new generation of Wildensterns who are determined to defy their elders and live a more honorable life. When Daisy and the engimal go missing, it is of little surprise that most of her family doesn&rsquo;t seem to care. It&rsquo;s up to her brother-in-law, Nate, and his cousin Gerald to find Daisy and face her kidnapper, a ruthlessly cunning hunter. With relatives like these, who needs enemies? </div>

Oisín McGann

Books By Oisín McGann (8 Books)

Ancient Appetites

Strangled Silence

Rat Runners

The Wisdom of Dead Men

Merciless Reason

Spoil the Kill

The Need for Fear

The Vile Desire to Scream

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