Carnivore

Ao and Val barely escaped the Battle of Naz with their lives. Now Val is wounded, there’s a bounty on their heads, and half the Continent wants them dead. They head west looking for refuge. What they find instead is merciless bounty hunters and rumors of worse. People say there’s an unholy creature roaming the plains—a creature carved with runes and feeding on human flesh. Nicholai Thurmond is a man with connections. He promises Ao and Val a chest full of marks and a new start if they can hunt the monster and come back alive. Ao has a few new tricks up his sleeve, and Val is a talented marksman. But to face what’s coming, they’ll need skills beyond any man or woman on the Continent. To survive the mountain, Ao had to become an animal. To survive the frontier, he might have to become a monster. Please be aware, dear reader, that this novel deals with dark subject matter.