They were supposed to have been hunted to extinction. But sometimes death is a myth.
Astul, an infamous assassin with a woeful reputation, is hunting down a king slayer in exchange for a handsome reward when he makes an unsettling discovery. One involving insane kings and mad queens and kingdoms suddenly poised for war. People seem to be losing their minds. Or rather, forfeiting them.
Astul has spent a lifetime sliding blades across throats, not saving lives. But he either helps preserve his world from a harrowing threat, or he can kiss everything he's ever known, along with domain...

Waking up at the crack of dawn to an irritable gnome demanding payment for some valuable information was not how Caval Ignolius planned to start his morning. He had, after all, just gotten back from traveling through a picture to a world one million miles away.
His morning's about to get a lot worse.
Caval soon learns that someone's trying to kill him, he's gotten on the bad side of a sixteen-eyed personification of evil, and a crotchety old crone is messing with occult magic that could have deadly consequences. Oh, and there's a plot to overthrow his world.
Caval has a few...