Bounty

The Solumancer Cycle #3

by J.C. Staudt

Wizard. Alchemist. Fraud.

I did it. I became someone else. I narrowly avoided the deaths of my loved ones, not to mention my own. Now I'm suffering the consequences.

A powerful being has left this world, and those less qualified are descending like vultures to consume what's left. This is the vacuum I'm living in, caught between one of the most vicious vampire covens in New Detroit and a goblin gang who wants me dead. But vampires and goblins are the least of my troubles. The Fae Council wants to keep my fiendish former master imprisoned, and it's going to take an army to convince them otherwise.

It's a good thing I know where to get one.

249 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 29, 2017

About the author

J.C. Staudt was born in Oceanside, New York, and moved to Virginia at the age of four, where he has lived ever since. He is a graduate of George Mason University, with a B.A. in Integrative Multimedia Studies, and he works for an Engineering and Consulting firm as a New Media Designer. He lives with his beautiful wife in a house lacking pets and children in Manassas, Virginia.

Staudt has been an unrepentant nerd for three decades and counting. He spends his weekends playing D&D and theorizing about every possible plot twist and untimely death (and undeath) that might occur in the next Game of Thrones novel. He writes science-fiction and fantasy across three distinct universes:

The Aionach - A dying world whose sun is so hot and close it's turned the entire planet into a wasteland. For fans of the Fallout video games, the Mad Max movies, and Stephen King's Dark Tower novels.

Esperon - A planet shattered centuries ago after a cataclysmic event of unknown origin, which gave rise to super-human beings called techsouls and islands that float on an anti-gravitational element called driftmetal.

Orothwain - A realm of goblins, elves, and dragons, where everyone talks like they're fresh off the boat from middle-ages Europe. You know the place. Magic and nature exist in polar opposition to one another, so magic users battle nature users like a fantasy rendition of crips and bloods.

Find him on Twitter @JCStaudtWrites or on his website, jcstaudt.com