Fantasy-SciFi-Horror
The first book to the spiritual fantasy series - The Path of None - The Curse - a One-of-a-kind 284-page horror graphic novel filled with stunning vivid dark imagery - is A.G.ZoderoT’s spiritual grimdark fantasy horror masterpiece set a sinister fantasy world as we know it Not, and serves as an orig ...
Sacrifice Featured
When high-status Trueborn Rajiv is attacked by a giant bhimkay spider, his rescuer, Leyta, becomes his captor. Can Rajiv learn to see the enslaved escapee Leyta as more than a non-human Tankborn? Or will he seize his chance to recapture her, knowing the gene-splicers will wipe away her brain and ...
Werewolves, Vamps, and Thieves!
Joe Mack and his friends head to Pittsburgh to deal with a surge of disappearances, all people with psychic abilities going missing under highly questionable supernatural circumstances. That’s enough to keep anyone hopping, but Joe can’t ignore the feeling that th ...
Children of Alpheios Featured
A 2023 Firebird Book Award Winner & Five-Star Reader's Favorite: A genetically engineered colony on a new world. A baby born different than everyone else. A mother who will do anything to save him. On planet Eamine, twenty-one-year-old Alina must protect her baby when Mandin is born with a ...
Nowhere Too Far Featured
Over fifty years ago, Dr. Fred Carlson told the world that the possibility existed the Earth could be impacted by a pair of asteroids sometime in the future which may cause the complete destruction of all life on Earth. His warning was disputed and soon forgotten by all except a small group of pe ...
Emergence Featured
★★★★★ “Stayed up until 2 AM on a work night … you’ve been warned.”
Eight heroes. Two galaxies. One epic mystery.
Matthai Valtrellin, reluctant heir to a galactic dynasty, never questioned his role—until a mysterious woman appears, heralding imposs ...
In space, the screaming never stops.
From derelict ships haunted by madness to alien planets steeped in dread, this chilling anthology of space horror and sci-fi terror takes you on a journey into the deepest, darkest reaches of the cos ...
Harper Brinley is running for her life. After escaping from a government holding facility where she, along with other scientists, were being forced to build a deadly weapon, she headed for the most remote place she could think of, the wild Xantifal Mountains. The one place where no one would think t ...
Princess of Wind and Sea Featured
In 1773, the prince and princess travel across the globe on a series of secret missions, and run into unexpected danger. Aisling's magical abilities are increasing, but dark forces who seek to destroy her powers are hunting them. The prince must protect her at all costs, as they fight for survival a ...
Hunter's Moon Featured
International bestselling author James Byron Huggins returns with the sequel to his novel Hunter, delivering a story of primal terror, relentless pursuit, and ultimate confrontation.
A brilliant but twisted Army scientist has done the unthinkable. He has become the beast, an ancient, preh ...
Wicked Tongue Featured
A typical night of partying leaves Daniel Blair with far more than a hangover. His myraid of strange symptoms defy explanation, as does the blood on his pillow. And something is very wrong with his tongue.
Afraid he contracted a terrible unknown illness, Daniel seeks help. But hi ...
Earth Peregrination Series Book 1 Featured
Destructive earthquakes and time-traveling portals created by massive storms take our heroes and heroines to beautiful, exotic, strange, and dangerous places. Everyday people thrown into a warrior lifestyle they never expected and didn't ask for; all while fighting demonic forces at every turn. T ...
A warrior fighting his destiny. A woman desperately seeking hers. And a magic portal that joins them both. Dál Cruinne is a world of warriors and mages, clan kings and sages. Asleep since the Dragon Wars of millennia past, the beasts have now awoken. Arlan, warrior son of the High King of the Sovere ...
The Girl Who Broke the Dark Featured
Sometimes, breaking the curse is only the beginning…
Princess Eliana of Ymittos has long anticipated the day she gets to make the rules — and use her magic without fear of penalty. But until she ascends the throne, Eliana’s days are devoted to practicing diplomacy on i ...
Three Deadly Shorts & A Poem Featured
Three Short Stories of Love and Loathing, And A Poem of Infinite Consequences Final Day With only minutes from conversion, Alana must convince her loving husband Michael that change is imminent and that he is a crucial part of her metamorphosis. But something goes wrong! Alana’s inept attempt at a e ...
The Last Dog Featured
The Last Dog is an award-winning dystopian drama set in 2086 (2 books in the series). It received a Readers Favorite award in 2018, and won the Book Excellence Award in 2017. After the Unified World Pact of 2045, people lived in a state of peace and prosperity previously unknown in human history. Th ...
Unbound by Shadowspire Featured
Secrets are a game to Myrna’s family. If only she were a player and not a pawn.
Myrna found a way out from under her family’s thumb via her dream job, but it’s more than it seems. Here, the ground vibrates with a power that fe ...
The Matriarch Messiah Featured
She Reigns Featured
The fulfillment of the prophecy is at hand. To claim the crown and restore peace, Attina must first defeat the tyrant king. But victory won't come easy. Known to be the most powerful of the Fae, King Henrik would sooner burn his kingdom to the ground than relinquish his throne. More than ever, ...
Plunged, First Chapter Free! Featured
A Navy SEAL. A cloaking experiment gone wrong. A battle beyond reality. Will his faith be enough?
The Matrix meets The Chosen in Plunged, a high-octane Christian sci-fi thriller of explosive action and soul-stirring faith.
When Navy SEAL Jacob Carter is forced into a top-secret ex ...
The Road to the Stars Featured
Get ready for an electrifying odyssey across the cosmos in Adam Gaffen's "The Road to the Stars," where Kendra Cassidy emerges as the unstoppable force propelling humanity into the galactic unknown, no matter what obstacles stand in her way! Amidst a world on the brink of resource catastrophe, Ke ...
Kilty As Hell Featured
"This series is getting better and better." - Amazon Reviewer
Catriona is having a strange year. First, she found a dazed Highlander on the Hollywood studio lot where she works as a fixer and now it seems she and that big hunk of haggis are supposed to save the world from corrupted t ...
HOLOGRAM Featured
Holographer David Leone has just turned forty, and he's been enjoying spicy memories of his first love, Lucille Muhr, who's now a famous actress. When the ghost image of a young girl shows up in a holographic portrait of a bride and groom, David sets out to invent a device to pre-screen space for h ...
Death's Head Featured
As the war in Europe winds down, a unit of battle-fatigued GIs are tasked in liberating the survivors of the infamous Verurteilt concentration camp, in theory a relatively simple rescue mission. Upon arrival, Sergeant Rance Hawkins and his four young charges are ordered to search an unmapped area be ...
From the Mind of a Witch Featured
When ex-FBI agent Rebecca Marte considered the possible challenges of her new career as a private investigator, she never thought one of them would be to investigate a witch charged with killing a man during a coven ritual. The job should be easy as six icons of the St. Louis business community, the ...
Heritage Mountain Featured
Adventure, romance, and a touch of mystery unfold in a world where the mystical and the actual coexist. Set in the majestic Adirondack mountains, when Marco Cason leads an expedition to explore the history of the mountain wildernes ...
High school mean-girl drama is bad enough, and having an overprotective magical car only makes it worse. Samantha wishes she’d followed her grandfather’s rules about not getting the car ...
A story of self-discovery, fortune, and fate
An unexpected adventure leads to peril, betrayal, love, and family. Where will your choices find you?
A time-traveling tale of swashbuckling battles, ...
Amazon #1 Bestseller
"A mind-bending thriller with spiritual stakes...unexpected twists...mind-blowing revelations...and thought-provoking conflicts that challenge everything readers think they know." - Reader View ...
Necrosis Featured
Amidst the chaos and fear of an apocalyptic virus, a mother fights to protect her daughter from the rotting remains of society. Navigating a frightening new world where survival is paramount and trust is a gamble, infection is only a misstep away. Despite her doubts and imperfections, Amy’s love and ...
Star Force pilot and hero Wyatt McCoy left his medals and career behind after the Rim Wars, disillusioned and bitter when he learns the truths behind the conflict. He takes his converted gunship, the Nellie B, and heads to the Near Fringe, salvaging derelict ships and abandoned stations and minin ...
(5 stars) "Great books, kept my interest from page one. But now I have to wait for the next one (sad face). I love this series." -- Judith J, Amazon reader. The adventure continues in WIZARD SEARCH, The Magic of Larlion, Book 4. The war ends in victory for the young wizard Beneban and his friends, b ...
United States, 2072 With the country under the threat of war, a group of time-traveling government agents devise a risky plan to keep their families safe. But transporting hundreds of years to the past and blending in may prove much more dangerous than they expected. Cyber Criminal Enforcement Agent ...
As the world descends into chaos, one woman will do anything to find her daughter…
Shannon Grayson is a tough-as-nails long-haul truck driver on a routine job. But her life is turned upside down when a massive electromagnetic blast hits North America while she’s unload ...
2022 Maxy Award Winner in the Suspense and Horror Category Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Publishers Weekly/BookLife Prize Fiction Contest in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror category! "Knight has crafted a disturbing, horrifying, and eloquently written novel that expertly captures the sensations of desperation ...
No matter where the watch hands turn, she’d rather remain home. But with every time-traveling trekker’s life at stake, can she stop a deadly clock? Wilda Firestone survives off black coffee and white-hot sarcasm. And despite the colorful slew of characters filing through her time tourism costume sho ...
Welcome to the Little Store of Destinies. What you’ve lost can be found… but at what cost?
There is a store hidden in the forgotten corners of the world, a place that shifts in and out of existence, waiting for those who need it most. It has no address, no grand entrance—just an old ...
Inheritance is a chilling British ghost story set on a remote Cumbrian farm.
Atmospheric, unsettling, and morally charged, Inheritance explores guilt, history, and the inescapable weight of what we pass down—whether we choose to or not.
Jane is on her first night shift at the university radio station when the apocalypse begins… Will she be safe in the cozy studio as the snow-covered world outside turns into a blood-spattered nightmare? An unputdownable horror thriller.
Lithir and Bruno are sent to find the traitor who plotted to kill Alfrahil. If they are to be successful in their mission, centuries of distrust between their races must be overcome. As the unlikely duo enters the Dwarven mines of Nerea, they confront a maniacal sect, whose power threatens to consum ...
Shutterbug Allison Lee is trying to survive high school while suffering the popular girl's abuse. Her life is often abysmal, but at least her green hair is savage. Her talent for photography is recognized by the school paper and the judges of a photo contest. While visiting her friend Joe, a homeles ...
A kingdom bound by prophecy. A darkness that will stop at nothing. Four powerful princes fighting fate, curses, and deadly magic—until love changes everything.
Celestial Bonds is a collection of interconnected fantasy romances where fated mates, dark magic, and forbi ...
A village blacksmith from the middle of nowhere, Thomas seeks adventure after surviving a plague that eradicated his homeland. Following his father’s advice and heading east, Thomas finds himself entwined in a surge of attacks by a thieves’ guild knows as Neydis. Similarly lost adventurers soon join ...
A retired female cop…a sexy hero…an adorable dog…interdimensional travel…monsters galore… a recipe for pure unadulterated FUN!
The return of the world's first Artificially Intelligent Private Investigator, Raymond 3000. Sentenced with other Andro-Americans to a concentration camp for alleged crimes against the state, Raymond is temporarily freed to help find who is behind a series of terrorist bombings targeting the city.
The ghosts of Charleston are afraid of a new entity that is hunting ghosts and consuming their souls. Cassidy Kincaide takes her hereditary role as a supernatural guardian very seriously, and as the ghosts vanish she and her friends use their paranormal abilities to stop the threat and protect th ...
In a city beset by monsters, three brothers must find out who is controlling the abominations. The city-state of Ravenwood is wealthy, powerful, and corrupt. Merchant princes and guild masters wager fortunes to outmaneuver League rivals for the king’s favor and advantageous trading terms. Lord Ma ...
A butterfly's wing is healed, and destiny unfolds. Follow the healer's path as he walks between shadow and light. Fulgar Geth's life has been one of grief and hardship since childhood. With his strange abilities to heal and wield forces of magnetism, he is often shunned and misunderstood. Unable ...
This luxury leatherbound special edition of Mistborn comes from Dragonsteel Books. It includes a bound-in, satin-ribbon bookmark, gilded pages, two color foiling on the cover, as well as exclusive artwork and a 2-page map.
If you've never read Mistborn, it's an epic fantasy novel origina ...
The court of the gryphon king has ever been a dangerous and seductive place where Ishtar’s blessing is both the hot breath of passion and the cold kiss of steel. Yet as the childhood companion of King Ditanu, Iltani never doubted her place in either his kingdom or his heart. Then duty called her awa ...
Penny Briggs is a perfectly ordinary woman. Until her life takes a left turn at Albuquerque… I thought my marriage would be a fairy tale. Instead, I’ve put a thousand miles between me and my broken dream, starting over with temp job in Albuquerque. Prop shopping for a TV production takes my mind off ...
The world ended. Then things got tough. Shane Collins and Lucas Maddox are the last two US Marshals after a global cataclysm that destroyed most of modern civilization. They’re still on the job, fighting the good fight, although they’re no longer fully human and maybe not entirely sane. Witches a ...
In Hub, a city of treachery and deceit, Gelsey, a pixie, is one of the best thieves around. When a smash and grab assignment turns into a job interview with a powerful dragon, Gelsey finds herself a part of a crew including five more of the best criminals Hub has to offer. Her crew includes Silai, ...
Marked by magic, tested in blood and fire, King Hesleof is the ruler of Calibran, a bridge to his people and a bulwark against the wild chaos that once decimated his kingdom. Accompanied by his loyal sergeant-at-arms, the minotaur Ruric, Hesleof rides to meet the wise dragon Lyrroth the Benevolent, ...
Like millions of other kids, Jim grew up wanting to be a superhero. Unlike most of his contemporaries, however, Jim actually had the goods: a plethora of super powers that would have been the envy of any meta on the planet. But when his tryout with the Alpha League - the world's premier group of ...
When Brand & Desmet airlift occult valuables out of Havana during the 1898 naval conflict with Spain, they get far more than they expected. A shipwreck with experimental tech and magical relics sparks a race to retrieve the goods—and the winner might turn the tide of the war and the balance of power ...
A brutal new Ice Age covers the Earth…
When an experiment to reverse climate change goes disastrously wrong, Jarred and his daughter Hope are forced to head south in search of warmth. This man-made eternal winter shows no signs of stopping, and with temperatures continuing to plummet, fea ...
Buddy flick epic fantasy! The second in the Assassins of Landria series from the award-winning, bestselling author of Scourge: A Novel of Darkhurst and The Chronicles Of The Necromancer books! Wandering mystic Yefim Makary, known to his followers as the ‘Witch Lord’, disappeared before he could b ...
Cool off on the wings of Ice Dragons with the first 3 books of the epic fantasy adventure series, THE MAGIC OF LARLION. Flung off a mountain on an impossible quest. Beset by black sorcery, ice dragons and shape-shifting assassins. Befriended by a giant horned feline, a furry three-armed soldier a ...
The end begins now as truth, trust, and power collide.
The final chapter of the Zworsky’s Children series expl ...
The fight for their lives, their love, and the world begins! Sonora's love of the sea leads her to discover something in the depths of the oceans that shouldn't exist—a thriving city, centuries old. And Ian is completely unaware of who Sonora really is—a granddaughter of the most hated man of his ...
Dense, freezing January fog and a cottage with a bloody past — a documentary crew travel to a remote Scottish cottage to revisit a decade‑old massacre — what they film becomes the last evidence anyone may never see.
Jacqueline Carey, author of the Kushiel’s Legacy series, says "Shorn is a striking debut, filled with skilled world-building” and “complex psychological tension.” Kirkus Reviews calls SHORN a “grand-scale fantasy” with “remarkable depth” and characters that are “emotionally relatable and endearing.” ...
A village slaughtered. A world wonder reduced to rubble. Priceless artifacts stolen without a trace.
When a wave of ruthless attacks shocks the globe, CIA operative Cash Luker is thrust into th ...
Friends since their orphanage childhood, Joel “Ridge” Breckinridge and Garrett “Rett” Kennard rose through the ranks of the Landrian army together, from teenaged conscripts to seasoned fighters. Together, they became the most feared team of assassins in Landria, surviving longer that most in thei ...
“Stephen Colbert meets Stephen King” - Book Nerd’s Brain Candy Winner of the 2012 Laine Cunningham Award!
Withrow Surrett is more than just his neighborhood’s resident curmudgeon. He’s the self-declared vampire lord of North Carolina, a once-renowned painter, and he can make a mean batch ...
When tyranny rises from the carnage of nuclear autumn, can superpowered people save themselves from a campaign of revenge?
New York City, Post-Third Global War. Sebastian McConnell dreams of a better world for all. As a human with enhanced abilities, the dedicated hero ...
He’s been hunting my family since the 1600. Now he’s after me. Eighteen-year-old Lucy Owens is "that weird Owens girl" to the entire New England town she grew up in. She dreams of starting fresh at college in the fall, but prom night changes things. A mysterious threat forces her into hiding, and le ...
The first book to the spiritual fantasy series - The Path of None - The Curse is A.G.ZoderoT’s spiritual grimdark fantasy horror masterpiece set a sinister fantasy world as we know it Not, and serves as an origin story of the Dark Messiah, unraveling the Darkest of Legends, the Darkest of worlds' Cu ...
Rule-breaking, unconventional assassins Joel “Ridge” Breckenridge and Garrett “Rett” Kennar are back, and the stakes have never been higher. The Witch Lord remains at large, orchestrating his plot against Landria’s throne from the shadows. Then tragedy strikes, the kingdom is in jeopardy, and Ret ...
The city-state of Ravenwood is wealthy, powerful, and corrupt. Merchant Princes and Guild Masters wager fortunes to outmaneuver League rivals for the king’s favor and the best trading terms. Ambitious and ruthless leaders use betrayal and assassination to gain their ends. Blood magic conjures monste ...
From Book 1: For fans of Twilight and The Vampire Diaries comes a new addiction impossible to put down.
She's in love with her best friend. A family grudge could tear them apart. And a supernatural secret could get them killed…Robyn can't picture life without her childhood best frien ...
Isabelle’s father is missing, and the only person who could help her is asking a steep price. Gustave offers help on the condition that she marry him, yet Isabelle has witnessed his true character and would never agree to such a proposal.
By sheer luck, Isabelle comes across a clue that points ...
My Gran used to say, “There are times when the only way out is a lead pill.” These are stories when things got that bad. A Lead Pill is the second collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE. Stories of loneliness and betrayal, of false hope and shattered dreams, of gifts and regrets, of love and ...
What if the demon to slay was your own? Raelyn Witt’s life has imploded. Holding tight to devastating secrets, she’s spent a year putting the pieces back together. But when her brother falls victim to a baffling and deadly illness, and desperate for a cure, she puts everything else aside. In her fre ...
A disturbed Vietnam veteran believes he can fly into different versions of his life in an infinite multiverse. As he struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, he uncovers a buried treasure inside his wounded heart that sends him soaring into his true home. Drafted straight out of high school ...
We are guarded by immortals when we dream.
Dream thieves watch over the unconscious wanderings of the human mind, plucking out the most dangerous dreams before they can take root and turn us into monsters. Malcolm Jones has been a dream thief since the dawn of time, but for once, he has f ...
They were the anomalies, the Talents that didn't check all the boxes or fit within neat, understood, traditional guidelines. Gathered together under a Premier Master at the Academy on Le'anka, the nine Talents were called Infren ...
Mouse – the mysterious man with the unassuming moniker (and the mentor of teen super Kid Sensation) – finally has his story told.
Brilliant and gifted, Mouse is a mental whiz who fails utterly in his initial attempts to join a superhero team. With his dream ostensibly out of reach, he eve ...
Picking a rose was a stupid way to trigger a curse, in Elissa’s opinion. But there’s no arguing with the strange, scarred host of a hidden valley who’s taken her brother captive.
Without the resources to mount a rescue, Elissa desperately settles for the next best thing: exchanging her fr ...
He gave her a gift. Using it could bring her to madness. Ireland, 1795. Esme Doherty believes the best of everyone. Despite a drunken father, a bullying twin sister, and a failing farm, the impoverished girl refuses to allow her sunny demeanor to dim. But when her grandfather gives her a magical bro ...
What magic does the library hold? Adopted at birth by a loving family of magic users, fifteen year old Ryn desperately wants to fit in, but the law is clear: only those with documented bloodlines use magic. If Ryn’s birth parents remain unknown, she will be denied the use of magic along with the ...
As the last of the Future Fae, her heritage drives her to discover the truth. Hidden for protection, he uses his gifts to survive. Will the Prophecy be fulfilled in time?
Rescued as a child, Skyler grew up in a royal household as an adopted daughter. Plagued by the mys ...
In the aftermath of the Great War, the land of Nostraterra lies in ruins. While the Elves, Dwarves and Men rebuild their kingdoms, a sinister plan has been set in motion: the assassination of Alfrahil, Crown Prince of Eldora. As fire rains down within the city walls, young prince Alfrahil rides for ...
Before Genys Arroyan was captain, and M'kar was Chief of Talents and Treinna was head of linguistics and Jasper was chief engineer … in the golden years under Captain Rob Hollis's leadership …
Before the stars burned and the skies collapsed, there were the Constructors—architects of layers, reality built atop illusion.
Humanity’s final legacy wasn’t salvation, but si ...
The fight to save my city has only just begun. It's time to sharpen the cat claws and unleash the spider fangs because this hybrid shifter is out to catch her prey.
I've already lost a close friend to the toxic memory-warping drug breaking the minds of everyone in the city. To make ...
A massacre buried by time. A curse that never died. A terror that rises every ten years… A century ago, Timothy Hurley’s men slaughtered a Wiyot Indian village—but the shaman’s curse lives on. Now, in Orca, California, the past has awakened. Blood must be repaid. And no one is safe.
Aileen McKenna arrives in Wolf Creek to study wolves in the wild only to learn Rhys Lindgren has a unique connection to the local pack. Frightened townspeople fear the three men found dead and mutilated in the woods were killed by a wolf. Rhys doesn’t believe that any more than does Aileen. But c ...
Mae Lin Zhou has struggled to live up to her father’s expectations all her life. When her dying grandmother chooses her to carry the family’s ability to make luck, she thinks this is her chance. If she can learn to control her new power.
Whisked away to Kismet Academy, Mae Lin finds herse ...
After the death of her mother and grandmother, and the same prognosis for her father, Sabine Harper is desperate to save the last of her family. Sabine survives her grueling training by the Vortech Agency, but now she must protect the world from a devastating solar flare by finding seven energy s ...
The ancient world reveres and dreads the fierce ha-mazaans. Now, an Oracle has prophesied their destruction. Heir to the Defender’s Throne in the city of Themiscyra, Cyra is eager to fulfill her role as protector of the ha-mazaan sisterhood. Instead, she is betrayed, kidnapped as war-bounty, and shi ...
There’s something magical about that sense of terror that grips you in the middle of sleep, when your heart pounds, you can’t catch your breath, and you know the monster is seconds away from grabbing you. While these pages occasionally record the odd hallucination or vision from beyond, you’ll find ...
Wisdom hides in plain sight … glimmers of unseen might.
Torn but not crushed, Meiwen’s Far Stone and her stout people show their mettle.
Separated from each other in dangerous Meiwen, Pergi and her companions hope to slip ...
Seth is used to risking his neck. He never intended to risk his heart. Seth Tanner swore to avenge his brother’s death. But when his quest for vengeance brings him to Richmond to stop a dark coven’s next ritual murder, he’s hell-bent on keeping Jackson Evan Malone from becoming the warlocks’ next ...
As the awakening crossroads between worlds reveal new mysteries, young Commander Rain Barynd and the Order of the Fallen Moon must scramble to challenge rising threats on multiple fronts. A budding alliance with some of the people of Earth holds promise, but enemies are making inroads as well.
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What's buried in the sand should never be exhumed!
When renowned Egyptologist, Samuel Clayton, inherits an ancient gold talisman engraved with mystical symbols, a perilous labyrinth draws him deep into a world of forbidden knowledge and ancient secrets. Haunted by long-fo ...
There are other worlds. Other universes. And sometimes, they slip into our own.
When Veronica “Roni” Rider discovers this, she also learns there are three people tasked with saving our universe - her grandmother and two 70-year-old friends. But it’s hard to defend your world with a bad ba ...
Ora Stone's memories were erased for her protection. She is a witch, hidden in the human realm, hidden from the others of her kind, protected by ancient magic.
On her first day of college, she loses her amulet, releasing her long-dormant powers. Purely by accident, she performs a le ...
Circus grunt Charmer Fire wrangler Growing up within the grind of the enchanted Circus Faire, Crew’s unique talents have blossomed. Though, he’s been warned that the King of Hawkswing is determined to eradicate a certain species, and for his own sake Crew must keep his formidable gifts under wrap ...
