Bitter Seeds

In 1939, British intelligence officer Raybould Marsh discovers evidence that Nazi Germany has developed soldiers with unnatural abilities. What first looks like a wartime rumor becomes a secret conflict involving enhanced humans, occult powers, and a rapidly escalating arms race.

Marsh draws in old allies, including Will Beauclerk, a reluctant warlock tied to dangerous extra-human forces. On the German side, orphans transformed by brutal experiments become weapons in the Reich’s war effort, while a precognitive woman named Gretel sees further ahead than anyone around her.

As the war spreads across Europe, both sides commit atrocities to gain an edge. The British rely on bargains with hostile supernatural beings, the Germans on engineered power, and Marsh is forced to navigate the human cost of defending his country. The novel ends with unresolved threats and larger conflicts still to come.