Two near-strangers -- one of them human, the other, something more -- confront an inhospitable wasteland in pursuit of an ancient enemy. One seeks for riches, the other for revenge... but theirs are not the only motives that will matter today.
Secondhand Bounty is the first installment in Skin Thieves, a series of fantasy short stories by Jacob Heim.
While well written, I would refer to this as a short story rather than a book. The very brevity of it is the reason I gave it only 2 stars; I felt somewhat cheated by the claim "Skin Thieves Book 1." That said, it is cleverly written.