New entry in the best-selling Monster Hunter International series by
Dragon Award-winning authors Larry Correia and Sarah A. Hoyt
When Owen Pitt and the rest of the Monster Hunter International crew are
called away to mount a month's-long rescue mission in a monster-infested
nightmare dimension, Julie Shackleford - Owen's wife and descendant of
MHI founder Bubba Shackleford - is left behind. Her task: hold down the
fort and take care of her new baby son Ray. Julie's devoted to the
little guy, but the slow pace of office work and maternity leave are
starting to get to her. But when a routine field call brings her
face-to-face with an unspeakable evil calling itself Brother Death,
she'll get more excitement than she ever hoped for.
Julie is the Guardian of a powerful ancient artifact known as the
Kamaresh Yar, and Brother Death wants it. In the wrong hands, it could
destroy reality as we know it. Julie would die before giving it up.
Then Ray goes missing, taken by Brother Death. The price for his safe
return: the Kamaresh Yar. If Julie doesn't hand over the artifact it
means death - or worse - for baby Ray. With no other choice left to her,
Julie agrees to Brother Death's demands. But when you're dealing with an
ancient evil, the devil is in the details.
To reclaim her son, Julie Shackleford will have to fight her way through
necromantic death cults, child-stealing monsters, and worse. And she'll
have to do it all before Brother Death can unleash the Kamaresh Yar.
It's one woman against an army of monsters. But Julie Shackleford is no
ordinary woman - she's one tough mother!
