The Stuff of Heroes is the first in the Semblance of Order trilogy, exploring the close way in which order and chaos march together with humans. The setting is 1960s Britain, but a Britain taken over by Germany during the war which ended after a year or so. The female protagonist, Georgia, is the teen, highly privileged daughter of the sector commander, a man very much on the up in German aristocratic circles. Mark, a British individual and an academic, is released from prison to tutor this headstrong, precocious seventeen-year-old. The idea stemmed from reading about the swing kids in 1930s Germany and relating that to the American-generated blues and rock movement of the 1960s. If jazz was prohibited, what would they make of rock and roll? But, the first book in the trilogy is a lot more about Georgia and how she adapts to the world around her and how her perspective changes so radically. I think of it as dystopia, thriller and 'what-if' history all rolled into one. Oh, and it also has a large dose of romance because that's just me.