Chase the Morning

"The hour that dreams are brighter and winds colder,
The hour that young love wakes on a white shoulder...
That hour, O Master, shall be bright for thee:
Thy merchants chase the morning down the sea..."

James Elroy Flecker, Hassan

Successful at his job but starving his personal life, export executive Steve is a hollow man. Until one night, by chance, he strays unhappily into the docks of his home city, turns one corner too many and changes his life forever...

When he recklessly intervenes in a dockyard fight which turns into something much more fantastic and deadly, Steve finds himself drawn into a world he neither understands nor believes – at first. His meeting with the mercurial Jyp leads to the ransacking of his office by a pack of horrible semi-human roughnecks, and the kidnapping of his secretary Clare. Aware of strong feelings for the first time in years, Steve enlists the aid of Jyp and his roistering, piratical friends to track down her captors and go after them – a chase which leads him further than he ever imagined possible, east of the sun and west of the moon, beyond the light of morning itself. Across the shifting, perilous seas of the Spiral, world upon world beyond our own space and time, he must confront a dark and twisted cult born out of cruelty and slavery, and come face to face with living death.

A picaresque fantasy that transcends the genre, a funny, erotic and romantic tale of kidnapping and rescue, of sea battles, swordplay and piracy among the shadows of our humdrum everyday world.