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Magic Unleashed (Delphine Rising Book 2)

Just when Abby and her family think things are finally turning around, Delphine has the last laugh—literally. With enemies new and old coming out of the woodwork, it’s hard to know who’s friend or foe. Abby and Liz become trapped in a merry-go-round of illusions while Delphine becomes stronger. Abby, along with her family and friends, must find and secure the talisman before it’s too late. Witches ...

Hard Day's Knight

Batman meets The Odd Couple meets Dracula in this award-winning horror comedy series! Children are missing. The police are stumped. Halloween is coming, with an ancient evil on the horizon. The vampires are the good guys. This is not your ordinary fall weekend in Charlotte, NC. Vampire private detectives Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood have been hired to keep a young client from bei ...

Nite Fire: Slash & Burn (Book 4)

Time is running out. Change is coming, and the worlds will never be the same. Surviving her ordeal on Drimera was only the beginning. Forced to pick up the remains of her life and move on, Dahlia returns to her vigilante ways: hunting monsters by the cover of darkness. Backed by a new team, she vows to keep the streets safe while training to harness the eye’s abilities. But the city has become ...

Hell On The Heart

Secrets.

Everyone has them.

Everyone keeps them for various reasons.

As a witch with power over water, Anna wants her secrets to stay in the past where they belong. All she desires is to enjoy the present, but what she thought was buried long ago, has found a nasty way of coming back to bite her. So hold on tight. Not only is her big bad secret back, but it’s hungr ...

Once Upon a Time

A sword-wielding Cinderella. An enchanting Beauty. A villain who might not be so bad after all… Once upon a time, before the Brothers Grimm, when fairytales were romantic fantasies for entertaining adults and frightening children… Three twisted tales inspired by the classic fairytales…for adults who still love reading fairytales, though they're a little darker now, making that happily ever after ...

Origin: The Vailore Saga Book One

It should be easy for the most famous vampire rock star in the world to get the girl, but he isn’t interested in just any girl… Caleb, a.k.a. “K”, the lead singer and guitarist for an all-vampire band, is consumed by a single burning desire: to be reunited with his Spirit Song. After waiting more than three centuries for her return, he may have finally found her current incarnation. But will she b ...

All's Fae That Ends Fae: An Irish Contemporary Fantasy Novel

Bintou Sissoko is caught in the middle of an epic mess. Long gone are the days when she could peacefully lose herself in ancient texts, yearning for the quiet life. Now, she's the liaison for the old gods, a promotion she never asked for. As the master translator, Bintou knows her skills are crucial, but she's not exactly thrilled when everyone around her gets mesmerized by a war goddess on a s ...

Vampires of London: Books 1-3

A dark cloud hangs over the vampires that secretly call London their home. The trouble starts when they come across a so-called blood bride; a human woman with blood so irresistibly tempting, everyone, including the leader of the vampire council himself, wishes to claim her and drain her for themselves. Next up, humans are under attack from a dangerous immortal. But killing humans is against vampi ...

Time Lost

Dan Baker is loved by most in the small town of Jerrod, Texas. Everyone except Virgil Hooper. The animosity between the two families runs deep, spanning three generations, reaching its peak when Hooper loses most of his farm to bankruptcy. Dan outbids him at an auction for a piece of farm equipment, further fueling Virgil's hatred, sparking a brutal attack, leaving Dan with a severe head injury. ...

Mark of Orion

A New YA Supernatural Fantasy packed with Action and Adventure! If you like sinister demons, warrior angels, supernatural powers, ancient lineages, with a twist of deception and ruthless revenge... then you don't want to miss this new exciting page-turning series! Three Teens…Three Fallen…Humanity's future is at stake. Seventeen-year-old Olivia has seen some wild things living in Las Vegas—but nev ...

Murder of Crows: A Shaman States of America novel

Monsters are real - and we are their prey. Elizabeth Fox is small, dark, and deadly. As the new leader of the Steelheads, Washington’s top monster hunting team, she must face down monsters in single combat, absorb their power, and banish their spirits – or die trying. A family is slaughtered in their Seattle penthouse by a prehistoric nightmare too powerful for the cops to handle. The Steelheads a ...

Shadows of the Past

In the quiet corners of her past, a formidable adversary awaits. Will she unveil her true self before it destroys her? Haunted by unsettling nightmares, Josie Benson straddles the thin line between reality and the allure of the unknown. Her tranquil life is disrupted when a centuries-old music box, holding a blood-red ruby necklace, appears mysteriously. The haunting melody it plays resonates with ...

Sin Eater (The Aria Knight Chronicles #1)

Aria Knight has an unusual set of skills: she will hold back the hounds of Hell so that you can fly toward the Pearly Gates, and she will wipe your slate clean so you don't become karma's bitch…for a price. A Sin Eater has to make a living in today's world somehow. But when she's called in the dead of night to perform her rite for a recluse billionaire, she stumbles upon a murder scene, and the ev ...

Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective

She was born into magic, but she has none of her own… Cassie Scot is the normal daughter of powerful sorcerers, born between worlds but belonging to neither. She strives to find a place for herself, but living in the shadow of her family’s reputation isn’t easy. All she wants is a nice, normal job, but her dreams of independence from magic are threatened when she stumbles upon the gruesome body of ...

Troubled Skies

The Rebel Runaways are on one side of the line; Fotheringay and the Government are on the other. No one will give up the fight. In a tale of two continents, the Rebel Runaways seek to defeat the illegal activities of slave traders secretly funded by the Prime Minister and Fotheringay. Joshua, an ex-slave, has the motivation, Charlotte has the skills to fly the airship and the crew must work tog ...

Witch'n

Two Time Award Winner First Place Winner of the 2020 Writer's Digest Self-Published E-Book Award for Fantasy 2021 Readers' Favorite Honorable Mention in the Fiction - Fantasy - General

It's all very well and good destroying the world, extinguishing any spark of hope, and ruling with an iron grip of fear and black magic. But nobody told the witch that running an administration of evil wo ...

The Voodoo Queen and the Vampire Witch

The Voodoo Legacy Being possessed has its advantages... Sure, my soul-bound familiar could be a pain in the ass... But she came with some pretty impressive abilities. A nasty Voodoo demigod, a Loa of Destruction, wants to steal her power. Ogoun, the Loa of War, has invited me to join the Voodoo Academy. If I master the arts, he tells me, I might have a chance to thwart the demigod' ...

River of Night

Teenage angst meets dark fantasy in this fast-paced urban fantasy debut.

Ivan is afraid he’s going mad. Because the alternative is worse.

Ivan has just learned the truth: his sleepy hometown is home to a Viking death cult, intent on raising a terrifying power. And by saving his friend's life, he’s just made himself number one on their target list.

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Witch Ways: 20 Full-Length Novels (and 1 Novella) Featuring Witches, Wizards, Vampires, Shifters, and More!

It’s time to get your witch on…. More than one million words of witchy goodness! Get ready to be transported with this magical boxed set of stories from NY Times, USA Today, and national bestselling authors! In this collection, you’ll find witches, wizards, and warlocks, along with vampires, shifters, and other creatures of the night.

Awakening the Vampire

AWAKENING THE VAMPIRE SHADOW-WALKERS BOOK 3 (This is a standalone story.) She protects supernaturals. He hunts them. Do you like a passionate romance with a tortured vampire hero and a supernatural murder mystery? Rock Star meets Supernatural in this exciting new series. The women are the rock stars here, and they command the supernatural alpha males in their lives. Grab a copy now and enter the s ...

Wings of Flesh and Bones

An Angel. A Witch. A Demon. And A Choice. Creatures from outer realms suck, as any gatekeeper worth their salt will tell you. Welcome to Rogan's life, an orphaned seventeen-year-old who lives and trains with other misfits under her uncle's roof, keeping Earth safe from non-human realm jumpers. Rogan's biggest issue concerns her uncle's short leash with her freedom---that is of course, until she's ...

Rain Dance

Eden Hunter has a little secret that could get her killed. Again. Paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be. Reaper Eden Hunter would know: she spends her days working for a local vampire warlord, harvesting the souls of the recently departed. But even bad situations can get worse. And when a body washes up on shore near Eden's secluded beachfront villa, the former con artist finds herself under in ...

The Wolf of the Prophecy

Mistakes were made. Now it’s time to pay the price. Werewolf Aric is losing his mind—literally. The incomplete mate bond with Divina is slowly killing him, and soon, it’ll become unbearable for her, too. He’s determined to do whatever it takes to make things right with his one true love. Now all he has to do is find her. But when his witch slips up and risks exposing the paranormal world to humans ...

Nite Fire: Flash Point (Book 1)

Slated for execution, shapeshifting assassin, Dahlia Nite, flees her world to hide in the human realm. As payment for the shelter they unknowingly provide, Dahlia dedicates herself to protecting humans from what truly lives in the shadows. Moving from town to town, she hunts the creatures that threaten an unsuspecting human race; burying the truth that could destroy them all. But the shadows are s ...

The Upside Down of Nora Gaines

Nora has visions of horrific things. Things that lurk in the shadows and feast on bones. After moving with her mother into an old farmhouse, Nora discovers a blank journal that fills itself with an ominous warning. A cursed beast is coming for her, and time is running out. When the lunar blood moon rises, so shall the beast. Local teen, Rebel, has his own trepidations about the house. His parents, ...

The Draculata Nest: Red Wolf Saga Book One

A lone wolf. A nest of vampires. Can he find the monster who turned his girlfriend before he loses her forever? Lone wolf Clifford Crane is grieving the death of the lover who transformed him. Without her in it, he wants nothing more to do with her world or her pack. Trying to find a new purpose in life, he returns to college. But when he rescues a beautiful young classmate from a vampire, h ...

The Joining: The Ainsworth Chronicles, Book One:

Welcome to Victoria in Beautiful British Columbia, the most haunted city in North America, and to Detective Carol Ainsworth's first day undercover at the very grand old lady, The Fairmont Empress Hotel. Ready to deal with the two Italian families flying in for a wedding to unite them, she did not bargain for the ghosts, the FBI agent or the ancient curses that come along too. Add to that the very ...

Swords & Stilettos

Zoe Jabril needs to devise a kick-ass plan to save the world ASAP. Otherwise, Armageddon starts the day she turns eighteen—and if that happens, everything is going to hell. Literally. She could be any other 17-year-old attending parties and checking out cute guys—except she discovers her best friend is a Guardian Angel and the boy she crushes on is a Nephilim, both sent to protect her ...

Like a Lily Among the Thorns

There are those who are born into loving families and then there are the less fortunate who must forge their own families through strong friendships. At a local small library in New York City, one such family was born. And just like so many capricious happenstances in life, this family unit embraced newcomers and grew exponentially. But this clan was also charged with far more than spreading love ...

The Oath

Seven hundred years ago, the Knights of the Ordained banished the demon, Asmeodai. Buried deep beneath Wahi Tapu Temple, the evil becomes a distant memory. For those seven hundred years, Asmeodai seethed in hatred for those that condemned him to this hell. He has survived only for his chance to enact his revenge.

Now, though, the time of the Secundus has come again. With the rising of t ...

Libra - Silver Blood Collection

Imagine if Asia, Australia, Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean vanish with the wrong turn of a key! As a silver blood soldier, it is Roy’s mission to stop that from happening. As the alpha of a werefox clan, Mori uses all of her skills to help her husband prevent the catastrophe to both Earth and the paranormal worlds. Together, they tread the dangerous water, fighting the most notorious superna ...

Magic Invitation

A Mysterious book. A Magical world. An urgent request.

When Tahendra discovers a worn journal, it stirs flashbacks of a life shes never known. Determined to help, despite fleeting memories and uncertainty, Tahendra rallies her friends.

The world of her birth is collapsing, and the magic dissipating.

Will she overcome her self-doubt in time to repai ...

What Haunts Me (Ghost Killer Book 1)

The ghosts that wander among the living do not haunt in the traditional sense; instead, they plague the innocent with disease, deformity and addiction. And once a ghost finds its victim, it will haunt them for a lifetime... or kill them quickly. After George gets ill, the dreams begin. Suppressed memories are triggered, allowing him to see ghosts, and a deeply buried instinct emerges. George finds ...

Immortal Killers

When Nathan gains his immortality, he learns that living forever is hard. Being immortal throws him into a world of government spies, crime syndicate couriers, and elite assassins. A world in which mankind is second class. A world where one has all eternity to master anything. And Nathan’s not the only one. But he wants nothing to do with such a dangerous world. He wants to help people, not des ...

Excalibur Saga: The Complete Series: Books 1 to 4

His superpowers made him invincible. Or so he thought. Ever since his head injury, Arthur has become fearless – arrogant even

Book One - THE SECRET OF EXCALIBUR

Book Two - THE REVENGE OF EXCALIBUR Her father had superpowers . . . Pamela does too . . . And life ain’t easy. A self-imposed outcast, Pamela struggles with her psychic abilities. She yearns to be herself without jealou ...

Scattered, Smothered, and Chunked: Bubba the Monster Hunter Season 1

He's the guy you want beside you in a bar fight, so why wouldn't you want him saving the world? He's Bubba the Monster Hunter, and he's here to save the day! Scattered, Smothered, & Chunked collects ten hilarious short stories and one origin novel about Robert "Bubba" Brabham, ex-Georgia Bulldogs football player and now the official Southeastern Regional Monster Hunter for the Holy Roman Catholic ...

Thunderbird's Wake

Agatha Christie, roll over in your grave, new sleuths on the prowl. Haida shaman Charlie Stillwaters convinces Carol Ainsworth, a Vancouver detective, to join him as he breaks his way into a high security prison. The duo are determined to find out who killed the previous native elder before all lightning and thunder breaks loose. They encounter deranged inmates, mystical beings, ancient serpents, ...

Deadly Curiosities: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure

Some family heirlooms are to die for. Welcome to Trifles & Folly, a store with a secret. Proprietor Cassidy Kincaide’s psychic gift lets her know the history and magic of an object by touching it. Cassidy and her friends—including Weaver witch Teag and her vampire business partner Sorren—save the world from vengeful ghosts, dark magic, hidden monsters, and things that go bump in the night. W ...

An Alec Winters Series Complete, Books 1-4

Author's Warning: Dark fiction story - with emotional triggers deals with elements of fear, death, and the dark side of life. Now, the entire Alec Winters Series all in one place. An Alec Winters Series Complete, Books 1-4 contains the entire, unabridged series. Prelude, Book 1 – Prelude is the backstory of Alec Winters and was actually written almost two years after Crescent City was published be ...

Demon Kissed

Becs was born with a symbol on the inside of her wrist called the Kiss. It marks her as a summoner, a person who can call forth entities of power and negotiate with them on behalf of a client who needs answers to a problem or is requesting a favor. When a demon summoning goes south, she fixes it, but winds up owing the demon a favor. She's now hiding out, bartending in a fae bar, staying away from ...

Destiny

After making a shocking discovery about herself, Lucy must embrace her destiny or follow in the tragic footsteps of the women who came before her. Lucy Owens was your average eighteen-year-old with overprotective guardians until an ancient Prophecy sent an army of Gifteds (humans with supernatural abilities) after her. Still haunted by her last encounter with Donovan’s Army, Lucy looks forward to ...

Seer of Souls

The time for hiding is finished. The dead are restless. Fate and destiny collide. Twins Cayden and Avery Tiernan have grown up in isolation on the fringe of the realm. Gifted with forbidden skills, they hide their growing magical powers. Ancient prophecies speak of the ones with the power to depose the queen. To protect her throne, Queen Alcina scours the land for evidence of magic, while th ...

Pirate Lover's Curse (Sleepy Hollow Hunter Book Three)

Lykoi shifter Janda Gray never expected to be cut off from her fated mate.

But when a centuries-old pirate curse stands in the way, Janda finds herself in a race to unearth a treasure that will break the curse and set Alex free.

As the past and present collide, she realizes the bounty hunter skills she's honed over the years aren't enough to defeat her nemesis—t ...

CORA

Cora has it all, but she doesnt have a man. They keep dying on her.

She is the immortal Greek goddess Persephone, drinking and reveling in a Malibu beach house in the twenty-first century. But no matter her wild antics or psychotherapy, nothing can ease the pain over her latest husbands murder. Except perhaps the prudish but handsome Mr. Gabriel Cartwright.

G ...

Cloak and Dagger

A life-leeching necromancer and a life-loving wood elf. It’s a match made in hell…or the latest dating app.

Their skills are polar opposites: she communes with the dead, he communes with nature. But if they can overcome their differences, their powers will pair perfectly. And that’s precisely what Delta Underground Operatives needs: a crazy powerful assassin team who can save t ...

Escaping Home

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 Christine Stewart has been to the past before and thinks she knows what to expect. She couldn't be ...

The Cross's Key

The fate of Kyle Stevens hangs in the balance after blacking out in the Cave of Treasures and waking up to find himself in another realm and an historical even playing out in front of him. The horror brings him to his knees. Then an elusive and long forgotten relic from his past presents itself again, reminding him of unfinished business. Just when he thought life couldn't get worse, memories he d ...

The Reluctant Mage, Book 1 of the Demon of Beringale Series

A reluctant hero emerges to battle an ancient evil. Three thousand years ago, the demon Helsa escaped the underworld after a soul heist gone wrong. He soon disappeared. Now he’s back and hunting for the soul of a mage. After Beringale’s finest mage, Shedek Zorah, is kicked out of the Magic Guild, he finds a young Karle Adair unconscious and surrounded by armed orcs. Evidence suggests Karle used ra ...

The Sidhe Princess

In the rural Northern Ireland of the 1960s, sixteen-year-old Moira Mullins is newly released from her second stay in a mental institution. Her problem is that she can’t seem to escape the notice of the other-worldly inhabitants of the wild lands bordering her family’s farm. Creatures nobody else can see or hear. When one of these beings, a fairy princess called the Maid of Ulster, offers to forete ...

Dawn of the New Breed (A Tale of Vampires Prequel)

Just how long will a vampire wait for revenge? Buy Dawn of the New Breed to find out in the prequel to the best selling vampire series. The full length prequel to Murderous Little Darlings (A Tale of Vampires #1). * England, 1472. A teenage Mariana Claremont is having a secret liaison with England’s premier soldier and commander of the King’s army. Unhappy with their union, separatists ...

Black Crow

Raising the dead is just the beginning. Selena is a necromancer but hiding her talent is priority one. She works in a small diner as a fry cook with her best friend, only raising the dead when the magic becomes too much and always in secret. But all that changes when someone starts leaving dead animals at her doorstep. She runs, leaving everything behind, but finds herself in a new world where mag ...

The Gray Tower Trilogy: Books 1-3

Three full-length Amazon bestselling fantasy novels in one collection: The Tower's Alchemist, Dark Rift, and Circadian Circle. Be a spy. Save the world. If only it were that simple. The Nazis have unleashed occult forces throughout Europe, and the Allies are forced to recruit wizards to help them fight in the streets of Europe and in the shadows. Among them is the battle weary spy, Isabella George ...

The Midlife Lady's Guide to a Bad Horoscope: (A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel) (Powers of the Zodiac Book 1)

A hilarious and magical new series from the authors of Down & Dirty Supernatural Cleaning Services! Three very different women receive a similar desperate message from their husbands: I've been kidnapped and I need your help. They each must secure a mysterious and powerful magical object for his release. As they set upon this task, the women discover they have more in common than they original ...

Dark Winter: Last Rites (Dark Winter Trilogy, #3)

The final chapter in the Dark Winter series. * * * What would you risk losing, in order to win? As the Crescent Moon set on that last day of winter, the residents of Gorswood realised that the horrors that had been contained in the woods for so long, had finally risen, and were coming for them. With the fate of Romilly, Beth, and Gorswood’s greatest ever witch uncertain, an age-old evil sens ...

Dragonseer

Secicao. A powerful drug of immeasurable power and value, but one that's also destroying the planet. Pontopa Wells is an uncompromising entrepreneur with a dragon and a secicao operation in the Southlands. When she is contracted by King Cini, to incorporate her business with that of the conceited Faso Gordoni, she is initially unsure of her one-time rival. Then, a meeting with her much-loved autho ...

Crown Yourself Dead

A museum in Mudflat is a last straw in the battle to avoid attention and it brings out the worst in the residents. Claire knows the dangers of swords and guns and black magic, but is there really such a thing as death by digital? First published October 2016, this novel is the eighth of the Mudflat Magic series and can be read as a standalone, especially by anyone who is hooked on computer games.

The Book of Uriel: A Novel of WWII

An otherworldly tale with indelible characters in a realistic wartime setting. Hoffmans novel sublimely fuses world history and Jewish folklore.---Kirkus Reviews

In the fires of World War II, a child must save his people from darkness…

Ten-year-old Uriel has always been an outcast. Born mute in a Jewish village known for its choir, he escapes into old stories ...

Sea So Blue

Caspian is looking for his mother. Snatched from the beach as a child and raised as a half-breed Mer-Prince in the long-lost city of Atlantis, his turn to rule is coming fast. Caspian learns that the Mer in Oceania have found a method to visit land—a practice forbidden in Atlantis—and later return to the sea. Unfortunately, the “magic” method involves poison so potent that only half-breeds with un ...

A Drifting Sun

Born without a face, Iggy is an outcast in his own village, surrounded by those who both fear his powerful telekinesis as much as they rely upon it for survival. But Iggy's gift often feels closer to a curse, and after a tragic accident, he disappears on the day of his Exile. Only his sister Mei follows, chasing Iggy into the hostile nation of Nasaru – a land that sees them as nothing more than ...

Spawn of Lilith

Out of the spotlight, in the darker corners of the studio backlots, Hollywood hides a remarkable secret. Actor or actress, set designer, electrician, best boy, or grip—in la-la land, it pays not to be human. Vampires, succubae, trolls, elementals, goblins—studios hire anyone and anything that can take direction, be discreet, and not eat the extras. (The less you know about your agent, the better.) ...

Eternal Curse

An eternal contract that could destroy my life, my love, and even a city. My magic isn’t a gift—it’s a curse, passed down from one generation to the next. With bills piling up, I signed a contract with a devil in exchange for money. Little did I know the contract is eternal. Whenever I’m summoned, I have to use my magic for illegal operations. After two years, I want out. When I meet K ...

Hoofin' It: A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count)

All Shane wanted was to get away from the wreckage of his career for a while. He picked New York City to provide him with a distraction from his early, unwanted retirement from the police force. New York City delivered, distracting him with three corpses and a miniature llama with a spitting problem and an attitude. If he wants to return to a normal life, he’ll have to face off against a sex traff ...

Wolf's Bane

Secrets are my specialty. I’m Mai Fairchild --- fox shifter, sister’s keeper, and bane of the local werewolf pack. In a world where different is dangerous, my sister and I must pretend to be human at all costs. Too bad I just lost the job that lets me live under the radar while putting food on my sister's plate. Enter an enticing werewolf who offers enough cash to upgrade our diets from ramen nood ...

Smoke and Mirrors

Read the book readers are comparing to Harry Potter, Throne of Glass, and Anne Bishop's Others Series!


A girl who uses her illusions to fool the world into thinking she's just like all the other magi.

A dragon who sees through her lies.

Together they just might survive a world that want ...

In the Shadows

Terra is a testy 17-year-old thrown into a secret world and told she is to act and look like an elf. She has no plans to do anything but be a teen, fall in love, suffer heartbreak, pick herself up and get the most out of her senior year. When her father dies none of that is an option. She has to leave her home and best friend Noah to live with an aunt she's never heard of. Clyde, her ferret is all ...

Uprising (Children of the Gods #2)

Elyse has done everything she can to protect her friends from The Council's reach. As long as they believe she's dead, she has time to rest and train for war. And war is inevitable. When Kara arrives with the news that Anna and Chloe have been captured, Elyse is faced with the realization that no one is safe until The Council is stopped and Christoph is destroyed. She doesn't need a prophecy to te ...

Tales From Fog World - A Companion Collection

A world held in shackles, bound by a mysterious fog.

A place where the practice of magic has been forbidden.

Something old is stirring. A mysterious force that threatens to upset a balance older than anyone can remember.

For nearly one thousand years, magic and its practitioners have been outlawed. They have be ...

Curse Breaker: Darkens

God's never had a warrior quite like Jerlo on his side. That's probably a good thing since a body and a book are unaccounted for. Both formerly belonged to a vanquished demon, but neither were found when the dust cleared. The question of what happened to them prods Jerlo to seek out the one person he swore he'd never speak to—a man everyone thinks is long dead. Jerlo’s relentless quest leads to th ...