Ray Mccarthy: 19 books

Book cover of Starship Chief
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016

A prequel to the entire Talent Universe series best read before The Master’s Talent. Set many years before first contact with Earth, three Karnd teenagers are on the way station starship to retrieve a valuable hidden artefact on a planet that’s never been contacted. But how many of the crew are...
Book cover of Exiles and Rooks
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018

Action is parallel to “Hero Genesis” and “No Silver Lining” in the partially Steam Punk world where the Tuatha Dé live. Alice’s half sister’s two children (met briefly in “Carrying the Shining Sword”) are exiled from Ireland because they too have magic. The Celtic Otherworld series...
Book cover of Seeking the Flaming Spear
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017

Megra must decide how to deal with Morien, who is Fay, so she contacts Queen Oonagh of the Aés Sidhe for help by throwing a 'Ball'. Alice (Eilis) decides it's time to do more matchmaking. Alice (Eilis) meets her adoptive grandmother (Queen Oonagh) and makes some friends in the Otherworld of the true...
Book cover of The Solar Alliance
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

As a result of the visit of the alien starship, the Intergal One, Earth has diverted all military, aerospace and technical research budgets into building fusion power stations and starships. Major Governments have avoided the UN by creating the Solar Alliance to manage this. Earth has now cracked...
Book cover of The Master's Talent
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017

Maisie is reaping the results of her foolishness. How can she teach class and be the Emperor’s Emissary on a “First Contact” Mission? How can she put off any public announcement about her relationship with Olef? Last part of the Maisie Trilogy (The Apprentice's Talent, The Journeyman's...
Book cover of Carrying the Shining Sword
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017

Who has poisoned Megra and her father, the Emperor? Eilis (Alice) accepts she is different and reveals why to her four friends. They learn about Skandi culture and the forbidden Skand magic. They take ship to another continent in search of an antidote and answers. Cover is from “The Love...
Book cover of The Legal Talent
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019

Sixth novel in the Talent Universe series. Maisie finally has to do the Legal training suggested some years earlier. Why is there a sudden urgency? Is it because someone shot at a delegation from Morglun? This stand alone story is set a few years after ‘The Master's Talent’.
Book cover of The Apprentice's Talent
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2016

Mei Zhen Kelly is a 23 year old computer programmer from Belfast working in Dublin for nearly three years. She’s talented and very dedicated to her work. People think she’ll go far, now that she’s had her second major promotion. Only her Chinese mother called her Mei Zhen, her official name....
Book cover of The Journeyman's Talent
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016

Sequel to “The Apprentice’s Talent”. Maisie is no longer an Apprentice, but a Journeyman studying to be a Master, three times over, at the Circle College for Talent, 80,000 light years from Earth, on Caemoria. But on a visit to Laramos city to sign a contract for her full spectrum colour system...
Book cover of Under the Stone of Destiny
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2016

Four teenagers are trying to end the ruinous war, a human, an elf princess, a dryad Mage and dwarf Wizard. Or at least that's what Kevin, the student magus thinks they are. Most of the action is on a legendary Celtic Otherworld, on the continent of Magh Meall. Out of food and close to despair in the...
Book cover of Conspiracies and Rooks
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018

Marion is now a Student Guard. Tony and Sorcha settle into the town house and make friends. Why does the shopkeeper not want the Guards to catch the thieves? This is the second of six ‘Marion and the Rooks books’ and the eighth book involving the Celtic Otherworld of Magh Meall. Extensive use...
Book cover of Fairy Godmothers
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018

Alice (Eilis) had previously agreed to be a godmother for Órlaith. Now the baby has quickened and a geas is triggered. You can’t invoke a fay blessing for a baby without invoking a fay curse first! Everything you wanted to know about the Fairy Godmother, the Wicked Witch, Flower Fairies and Fairy...
Book cover of Hero Genesis
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017

Urban fantasy mostly in Worcestershire / Wychavon area. Four teenagers doing A Levels get sucked into a strange situation with Superheroes and Aliens. They are rescued by the High Queen of the Aés Sidhe. Sequel to 'Seeking the Flaming Spear'. Fourth book in the Celtic Otherworld series.
Book cover of No Silver Lining
by Ray McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017

Urban fantasy mostly in Limerick. Alice (Eilis) joins the four English teenagers going to the University of Limerick, but senses a Horseman of the Apocalypse. Kate finds that Eilis is a strange friend with many surprises. Sequel to Hero Genesis and #5 in the "Celtic Otherworld" series, though the...
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