White Sands, Red Steel (The He-Dog Chronicles Book 1)

White Sands, Red Steel (The He-Dog Chronicles Book 1)

Mad.<br />Brutal.<br />Unpredictable.<br /><br />And those are their good points.<br /><br />Vicious. Hateful. Foul-mouthed and bad tempered ... He-Dog and Balless are all of these and more. And as mercenaries go, they have a stubborn sense of honor. A sense of honor that has once again landed them into a cauldron of mayhem. After an unfit night of drinking, which might have involved firewater, He-Dog and Balless accept a mission that no one wanted. To travel for days through a scorching desert to the glittering city of Foust and deliver a message scroll to the city’s ruler.<br /><br />At the time, word was the war there would be over.<br /><br />At the time, the coin was too good to refuse.<br /><br />At the time, He-Dog was so pickled he would’ve right and proper agreed to just about anything.<br /><br />Trouble is, one eventually sobers, and when He-Dog and Balless and their companions finally do and journey to the outskirts of Foust’s besieged walls, they discover the war’s nowhere near over. In fact, it’s only just beginning.<br /><br />A vicious, seething army of beastmen surround the towering city walls, their intent to sack the fabled city and feast upon every last citizen within. <br /><br />Still, coin was paid, and their unfit sense of honor will not allow them to turn back. <br /><br />No one in their right mind would try to get past an army of beastmen. He-Dog, Balless, and their companions, however, aren’t in their right minds.<br /><br />And a job’s a job.<br /><br />He-Dog and company will soon realize that while getting into Foust is unfit madness …<br /><br />Getting back out will get them killed.<br /><br /><br />Approx. 84,000 words, or about 280 pages. Contains violence and hard language.<br />