The Spiral Series by Michael Scott Rohan

Sail away to a world of magic! Steve is a hollow man, both in his job and his personal life, until one night, near the docks of his home city. A night that changes his life. As a dockyard fight 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 a raid on his office by beings not-quite-human, and the kidnapping of Clare, his secretary... moreSail away to a world of magic! Steve is a hollow man, both in his job and his personal life, until one night, near the docks of his home city. A night that changes his life. As a dockyard fight 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 a raid on his office by beings not-quite-human, and the kidnapping of Clare, his secretary. Aware of strong feelings for the first time in years, Steve enlists the aid of Jyp and his roisterin friends to sail after Clare ad her captors...to Chase the Morning. less

In the sequel to Chase the Morning, Steve Fisher must return to the Spiral, a timeless world that interweaves with contemporary Earth, in order to fight a zombie army.

Twice before Stephen Fisher has set sail upon that shifting vortex of Space and Time known as the - Spiral once drawn in by chance, another time by need. Now dread forces older than humankind are calling him back once more.

Maxie is in trouble - that's what happens when you drive a Ferrari Testarossa off the motorway at 120 miles per hour. But his problems are just beginning; after he hears about the Spiral, a whirlpool of time and space, he starts bumping into Elizabethan alchemists and bands of pirates.