Monster hunters, spaceships and comedy of manners by indie author Mel Dunay
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Sometimes the most useful superpower is being able to tell a dog to settle down. Dr. Maxim os Storm uses his animal telepathy to calm a mastiff misbehaving at a formal dinner party. From Dragon’s Teeth, Book 3 of the Hunter Healer King trilogy.
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Maxim is struck by the sight of Chloe in a green dress at the top of the staircase. A bittersweet moment, because they both believe they can’t be together. They’ve fought monsters side by side. They trust each other with their lives. But their bloodlines stand between them, and moments like this only make it harder. From Dragon’s Teeth, Book 3 of the Hunter Healer King trilogy.
Three thousand years ago, when Arent os Storm fled the fall of Thule, he brought with him more than just survivors and ancient knowledge.
He brought a weapon.
The Armor of Arent is a forty-foot-tall mecha in the shape of a knight in armor, with a crow-faced visor on the helmet, framed by wings. It can walk, it can fly, and it’s been waiting for a king worthy to pilot it. It may have finally found one.
Continue reading “The Armor of Arent: A Forty-Foot Mecha Waiting for the Hunter Healer King” →https://youtube.com/shorts/uzB7gH_NEUo
⚠️ SPOILER WARNING for Books 1-2
Continue reading “Video Thursday: Mecha vs Dragon Edition” →Maxim os Storm was a young man away at university when a kallomancer and her leeches attacked the airship carrying his parents.
The creatures tore through passengers and crew, drinking blood and spreading terror. By the time it was over, Maxim had lost his parents and other family members to the monsters many hunters consider the most dangerous algomancers of all.
This is personal for him. And for the Stormcrows who survived that night, kallomancers represent a threat that can never be forgiven.
Continue reading “Kallomancers and Their Leeches: The Most Dangerous Algomancers in Hunter Healer King” →https://youtube.com/shorts/riN4_268kWw
Stormcrows (the people) are named after stormcrows (the birds) for good reason. Maxim’s stormcrow companion wants to ride aboard the luxury airship. Animal telepathy meets steampunk technology in Undead Flight, Book 2 of the Hunter Healer King trilogy.
The dead don’t rest easy in the Old World.
Necromancers summon evil spirits from the underworld and bind them into corpses, creating shambling servants called wights. And if a wight bites you? You might join their ranks.
They are a type of algomancer: feeding on pain and fear like other dark sorcerers. They bring their own particular horror to the world of the Hunter Healer King trilogy.
Continue reading “Necromancers and Their Wights: The Walking Dead in Hunter Healer King” →https://youtube.com/shorts/R4meKyRdvYU
Maxim offers Chloe a box, and asks her to keep the artifact inside safe. She holds up the necklace inside and wonders “what has he gotten me into now?” Their relationship isn’t built on grand gestures. It’s built on trust forged while fighting monsters side by side. A romantic moment from Undead Flight, Book 2 of the Hunter Healer King trilogy. Which, by the way, is on sale now as part of Hans G. Schantz’s Spring Book Sale!
Imagine 19th century Budapest, but with airships overhead, monsters in the shadows, and an elected emperor who’s mostly a figurehead.
Welcome to Noricum, the sprawling empire where the Hunter Healer King trilogy takes place. It’s a land of steam-powered innovation and ancient bloodlines, where Dr. Maxim os Storm hunts algomancers through gaslit streets and Chloe Fortebat discovers that the “Old World” is far stranger than she ever imagined.
Continue reading “The Empire of Noricum In Hunter Healer King: Where Monsters Walk and Airships Fly” →https://youtube.com/shorts/LiePsSvFpqo
Maxim and Chloe face a blood-drinking leech, a horrifying monster created by the most dangerous type of dark sorcerer. Inspired by a scene from Undead Flight, Book 2 of the Hunter Healer King trilogy.
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