Stephen Charles
Stephen Charles spent over thirty years as a singer/songwriter and touring artist, playwright and music producer. He has two US internet radio collaboration No.1 songs and an is ISC )International Song of the Year) competition top ten finalist. In 2022 Stephen wrote his first novel 'Megalania" An Australian voiced Horror Thriller set in the vast outback. A plane carrying FIFO miners crashes in the Tanami desert during the monsoon and are hunted down by once thought extinct Mega Fauna. Megalania was followed by "The Find: A collection of short stories and then "Shadow in the Blood" book 1. a Vampiric tale crossing century's and continents from the far east to Adelaide, the capital of South Austrlaia. Steve lives with his partner His latest novel "Cecilia" is set in Venice and explores the Venetian lagoon myth of the aquatic creature Melusina who could change into a beautiful woman and the fisherman she fell in love with, Orio. "Cecilia" brings the ancient story into the modern world.
Fantasy, Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Cecilia, Megalania, The Find: A collection of short stories, Shadow in the Blood - Book 1.
"CECILIA" In a Venice cloaked by eerie fog and ancient secrets, a young woman named Cecilia begins to experience visions and dreams that echo with a primal force—something older than time, calling from the depths. As the lagoon’s waters grow still and men begin to vanish, a whisper of forgotten mythology returns. Drawn into a tapestry of mystery and matriarchal legacy, Cecilia is forced to confront a truth her blood has always known but her mind has refused to see: she is the latest in a line of women chosen to guard a terrible, beautiful secret. Her great-grandmother and two elderly companions still whisper prayers in a forgotten tongue, their voices a fragile shield against something rising. This is a story of feminine power, ancestral memory, and a love so deep it transcends death—but also of betrayal, wrath, and the seductive danger of the unknown. Threaded through Venice’s timeless alleys and sunken ruins is a myth reborn, one that pulses in the water and in Cecilia’s very veins. As past and present blur and the veil between worlds thins, Cecilia must decide whether to deny her inheritance—or embrace a fate entwined with a goddess once worshipped, now feared. Ethereal and haunting, Cecilia flows like the tides that shape it—seductive, mysterious, and impossible to resist.
