Gunslingers, Sorcery & Shapeshifting
Gunfights collide with magic, sorcery, strange creatures, and shapeshifting across the frontier.
Legends of Zaka • Episode One
A fantasy western about four outlaws, a boy who bleeds gold, and powerful families willing to kill anyone standing between them and their fortune.
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What is Blood Money?
A fast fantasy western built around gunfights, sorcery, shapeshifting, a crew of criminals, and one impossible score that turns into a fight across the frontier.
Gunfights collide with magic, sorcery, strange creatures, and shapeshifting across the frontier.
Train robberies, bounty hunters, monsters, close calls, and a crew that rarely gets time to breathe.
Outlaw-country energy, frontier towns, rail lines, six-shooters, and fantasy woven into the bones of the West.
Zeke, Ophelia, Tahu, and Lydia are criminals who know how to finish a job—even when the job becomes something none of them planned for.
The Story
Zeke Kane was expecting a train robbery.
He wasn't expecting to find a boy who bleeds gold.
Fourteen-year-old Ezra McAllen is the most valuable secret in Zaka, and his family has spent years making sure he stays that way. Locked away, bled for profit, and guarded like a vault, Ezra has never had much of a life to call his own.
Then Zeke Kane and his crew find him.
What should have been a simple score becomes something far more dangerous when Zeke, Ophelia, Tahu, and Lydia make a choice that puts one of the frontier's most powerful families on their trail.
Now they have to get Ezra across Zaka alive.
And everyone wants what's in his veins.
Why preorder direct?
Preordering Blood Money directly gets you the launch edition extras and sends more of your purchase directly to the people making the book.
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If those three things sound like they belong together, this is the lane Blood Money lives in.
ARC reader reactions
ARC Reader Review“Blood Money moves fast and never really lets up. The action hits hard, the gunfights feel cinematic, and every time I thought the crew might finally get a chance to breathe, something else went wrong. Somehow it still finds room to be genuinely funny without undercutting the danger.”
ARC Reader Review“This book feels like a fantasy western shot out of a cannon. Train robberies, magic, monsters, bounty hunters, and a crew that always gets the job done. The banter between the characters was one of my favorite parts, especially when everything was falling apart around them.”
ARC Reader Review“I flew through this. The chapters keep pushing you forward, the action is constant without becoming exhausting, and the humor makes the crew incredibly easy to love. Blood Money has that rare combination of fast pacing, big set pieces, and characters who are just as entertaining when they're arguing as they are when they're fighting.”
This is only Episode One. Blood Money opens the Legends of Zaka, and the frontier gets bigger from here.
Preorder Blood Money
Zeke Kane and his crew were looking for a score. What they found may be worth more than any of them can survive.
Preorder directly for the launch extras, grab the signed edition and wanted poster, or reserve the ebook for release day.
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