Hunter’s Assessment
Arcturian Bloodlines
Karyn Pearson
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.
