The Gentle Stepper must return to Achaean service and finish the work she began. Her enemies are more diabolical, and far more murderous. The treachery she will face is also ever present. She is a woman seeking to conquer everything, and with her sword in hand she has no fear of any enemy. This volume sees the Gentle Stepper journey to the rivers at the end of the world, and she struggles to defeat the direst host of devils conceivable. Yet the enemy above all is monster within.

Catty, the girl born with a burden, fighting a never ending war to save the world from the smelly, bad breath creatures of the night we call Zombies. She calls the Angry Dead. It seems no one else is up for the job, so Catty hunts the night, destroying the flesh chomping, brain gnawing monstrosities that would destroy us all. The hell and death of High School is nothing to compare with the horror of the army of wretched flesh eaters that stumble out of the dark, seeking the prey upon the innocent. The Necromancer is plotting the very destruction of the entire world, and raising an army of the...

Never get off the boat, and never split your team. Octavia Pomona breaks every cardinal rule when she is given double objectives, and naturally the team thrusts themselves into peril with eyes wide shut. Blazing forward heedless of any danger, they confront death itself without fear, even acting on the slightest impulse of rage. Assassination and piracy are the order of the day, and the new rules it seems everyone must learn to live by. Leave and liberty are canceled for everyone as the wolves step out of the darkness, brazenly entering the light. The predators are ravenous this go around,...