RAGNARSSON WRITES
Magic, monsters and mystery in a Britain that never was.
Piety's Fury
A chilling and atmospheric urban fantasy set in 1960s Northern Ireland, Piety’s Fury is a tale of magic, mystery, and the cost of uncovering the truth. Releasing 20/04/2025
Some families keep dark secrets.
Some families are dark secrets.
When a young girl vanishes in rural Northern Ireland, Piety is sent back to the same orphanage she grew up in to investigate.
Lissy isn’t just any child. She has magic in her blood, a power she doesn’t understand and can’t control. It’s been driving her father to madness. It may even have killed her mother.
As Piety digs deeper, she finds more than a missing girl. A dangerous artefact, steeped in ancient power, was left in Lissy’s bedroom. A warning, a weapon, or perhaps something worse. And Lissy isn’t the first girl to disappear.
The trail leads to a quiet family farm where generations of women protect a dark secret. They all share the same magical gift, and the same tragic history; taken in by their new mother, after their real parents mysteriously died. And now that mother has her eyes set on Lissy.
To uncover the final, terrifying truth hidden in Templepatrick, Piety must untangle decades of disappearances—and confront a past that wants to stay buried.
Piety
Stylish, cold war urban fantasy with devious plots, rampaging monsters and a strong (and stabby) female lead.
Releasing 20/12/2024
It’s the early 1960s — Kennedy is in the White House, the Berlin Wall is going up, and the threat of nuclear war is ever-present. But in Britain, a darker, older menace still stirs. Beneath the cold war political turmoil, a secretive government agency battles the occult, the uncanny, and the bloody strange, fighting for Queen and country against the forces that go bump in the night.
When junior investigator William Fitzwilliam is dispatched on a seemingly mundane mission to tackle infernal agriculture in the Shetlands, he soon finds himself thrust into a much more dangerous web of secrets. What was supposed to be a routine assignment is now a high-stakes investigation, already being pursued by the notorious Agent Magnus.
But the tight lipped Magnus won't share what he knows, and as Fitz uncovers clues, he realizes that everything he thought he knew is a lie. Fitz must navigate a tangled conspiracy that threatens more than just the agency, overcoming mind-controlled locals who are hiding heavily armed cultists, and there's no-one he can trust except, perhaps, for his enigmatic ex-girlfriend, Piety.
Piety is beautiful, deadly, and has a particular passion for stabbing the Queen’s enemies. She’s also working for Magnus. But can Fitz trust her again…or is she another piece of the puzzle?
About the author
Sam is a novelist in his mid thirties from southeast England, where he lives with his Swedish wife and composes his particular brand of sorcery and cigarettes modern fantasy.
He is inspired by classic pulp adventure stories, like Solomon Kane and The Shadow, and his dream is to write a similar long-running series of ripsnorting tales. In the more modern era, he is inspired by Dan Abnett and Kim Newman, the Connery era of James Bond, the IPCRESS File and the Avengers, as well as by the criminally underrated No-One Lives Forever.
He has been writing on and off for a decade, getting no-where with traditional publishers and finally decided to do it himself. If you're lucky he'll put up some of his old books that publishers wouldn't touch.
