Black Dog Blues
Author: Rhys Ford
Book Description:
Ever
since he’d been part of the pot in a high-stakes poker game, elfin outcast Kai
Gracen figured he’d used up any good karma he had when Dempsey, a human
Stalker, won the hand and took him in. Following the violent merge of Earth and
Underhill, the human and elfin races were left with a messy, monster-ridden
world and Stalkers were often the only cavalry willing to ride to someone’s
rescue when something shadowy and dark moved into the neighbourhood.
There
certainly were no shortage of monsters or people stupidly willing to become
lunch for one.
It was a
hard life but one Kai liked. And he was good at it. Killing monsters was easy.
Especially since he was one himself.
After an
accident retired Dempsey out, Kai set up permanent shop in San Diego,
contracting out to the local SoCalGov depot. It was a decent life, filled with
bounty, a few friends and most importantly, no other elfin around to remind him
he wasn’t really human.
That was
until a sidhe lord named Ryder arrives in San Diego and Kai is conscripted to
do a job for Ryder’s fledgling Dawn Court. It was supposed to a simple run;
head up the coast during dragon-mating season to retrieve a pregnant human
woman seeking sanctuary with the new Court then back to San Diego. Easy, quick
and best of all, profitable. But Ryder’s “simple” run leads to massive trouble
and Kai ends up being caught in the middle of a deadly bloodline feud he has no
hope of escaping.
No one
ever got rich by being a Stalker. But then hardly any of them got old either.
The way things were looking, it didn’t look like Kai was going to be the
exception.
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