Title: Hunter’s Assessment
Series: Arcturian Bloodlines
Author: Karyn Pearson
Genre: Paranormal YA
Publisher: The
Writing Network
Formats Available In: Digital
Release Date: TBA
Blurb: After years of training,
they should have been ready for this. It was supposed to be a simple
mission: eliminate the vampires and acquire the intel they’re
guarding.
Shane Kantor figured that this hunter’s
assessment would be like every other test the Hunter’s Society had
thrown at him and his squad. But he was wrong. Now Shane might just
lose everything: his life, his legacy, and worst of all, her.
Excerpt:
“Hi,” she said, extending a hand.
“You’re Shane?”
“Yeah,” he nodded woodenly,
swallowing a lump in his throat as he shook her hand. “So you’re
Sophie. My Predictor.”
“Yep, that’s me.”
“It’s an honor to have you on my
squad.”
Sophie looked shyly away from him,
laughing lightly. “No,” she murmured, shaking her head. “The
honor’s all mine. I didn’t know you were the Grandmaster’s son.
I feel lucky to have been chosen to be part of your squad.”
“Yeah, I figure the Grandmaster
wouldn’t want to leave her own kid stuck with just anybody,”
Troy, the Marksman, agreed. “If it was me, I’d want to have
someone like you well-protected. Wouldn’t want the Grandmaster’s
son accidentally getting killed from having incompetent squad mates,
now would we?”
Shane frowned. “Let me just make one
thing clear, alright?”
“By all means, go ahead, oh
righteous leader,” Troy drawled.
“Forget that I’m the Grandmaster’s
son. I don’t want preferential treatment. I don’t want you all to
look at me and see Shane Kantor, son of Nadia Kantor, the Grandmaster
and leader of the Hunter’s Society. I just want you to see me as
your friend, your comrade. Nothing more, nothing less. We’re all
equals here. Understood?”
“Yes, I understand,” Sophie
replied.
Shane looked to Troy, waiting for his
answer.
The Marksman sighed, nodding
reluctantly. “Alright,” he muttered, throwing his hands up in a
gesture of half-surrender, half-compliance. “No favorites?”
“No favorites.” Shane confirmed.
Troy grinned. “So, Mister
Not-the-Grandmaster’s-son, how good are you in a fight?”
The Dancer’s eyes lit up with
amusement as he regarded his new comrade. “Wouldn’t you like to
know?”
About Karyn Pearson:
Karyn Pearson is the author of Spark
(Hellfire Trilogy #1) and full-time pet parent of her two dogs Nikki
and Jamie. She has a B.A. in Anthropology and has explored dozens of
cultures in her studies, but has imagined countless more. Karyn
enjoys reading, playing action RPGs, and plotting the next adventure
for her characters when she has a spare moment free of the dreaded
and undefeated “puppy dog eyes attack.”
Her current projects include Inferno
(Hellfire Trilogy #2) and the first novel of the upcoming vampire
series, Arcturian Bloodlines. When she’s not writing, Karyn
can be found playing with her puppies or Googling various dangerous
topics for novel research that make her constantly question why
federal agents haven’t yet knocked down her front door.
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