Hound Of The Gods

Grimdark Contemporary Fantasy

War Dog

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Hound of the Gods Book #1

The Gods are assholes. The Druids are the bad guys. Nobody comes out of a war a better man. Drustan Seta spent his life fighting cryptids out of myths and legends. What that got him was PTSD, huge gaps in his memory, and an addiction to pain pills. When his only friend Frank goes missing, he believes that finding him might pull him out of his downward spiral. Instead, he gets sucked into a war between two factions bent on bringing back the old Gods and the magic they make possible. If either side prevails, it will mean the end of the world.


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The Hands That Feed

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Hound of the Gods book #2

Despite Dru’s best efforts, four ancient Gods now walk the earth and they are already carving it up amongst themselves. What chance do a few mortals have against the power of the Gods who are very much aware of Dru and his family of Martina, Frank, and Sarah? Luckily, Gods just can’t help themselves. They are always making plans within plans, playing the games they mastered at the dawn of time. Nobody seems to care what they want. That’s a mistake. Under the ancient magical laws of gifts and hospitality, the family find themselves trapped in obligations to the Gods, but if the deities push too far, they will discover that these dogs have no problem biting the hands that feed them.

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Mad Dog Mean

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Hound of the Gods book #3

The World Died. Dru has disappeared and his family can’t find him. Fourteen Gods openly walk the earth, creating a new reality. Magic has returned and all the world knows it. The Immortals have taken over, but Dru is killing them one by one. In return, they are working together to hunt the Mad Dog down. Martina, Frank, and Sarah have children to protect now, so they are using their position with the Gods to run their own long con. When they finally find Dru, they will have to risk everything to reach their brother before the Gods do. But what will they find? Is there anything left of Dru to save? And what will happen to them when the Gods find out?

Scheduled for release in late 2026

Trapped in a Dog’s Year

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Hound of the Gods Novella 3.5

Frank and Sarah don’t even have time to mourn the loss of their family. They are trapped in a strange land with a newborn to worry about, and the High Fae want them gone or dead.  However, the mythical land of Tir na nÓg has rules everyone must abide by, and if they can learn those rules fast enough, they might do far more than survive. Why? Because between them and the few friends they have already, they possess a special set of skills that these High Fae have never seen. Deadly skills. And their son Freki might be something even more special than that. They just need to survive long enough to figure out what that something is.

Scheduled for release in Spring, 2027

Kicking A Dead Dog

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Hound of the Gods Book #4

The remaining family is in hiding, the Gods are drawing up sides and creating pantheons of power. Humans, Cryptids, and Diversus discover there’s nobody looking out for them but each other. Champions roam the world enforcing the will of their Gods, bringing entire nations to heel. But Martina and Iáxuhke, Champions of opposing Gods, have their own daring plan to reshape the world – a plan that would get them both killed if it’s ever discovered – and it hinges on a fragile man recovering from two millennia of abuse in a small town in West Africa.

Scheduled for release in 2027

Hound

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Hound of the Gods Prequel

Where the hell did Dru come from? What horrors shaped the broken man history knows as one of the most prolific killers of all human history? His story is incredibly well known, and scholars have been debating his tales for centuries, but everything they think they know is wrong. Here Dru sets the record straight, telling his sister the truth of his early life; who he was, why he did what he did, the few who loved him and that he killed in return, and the monsters that turned him into the Hound – a beast that destroyed everything that ever mattered to him.

Scheduled for release in 2027

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I can hardly describe it, psychological, fantastic, Imaginative, colorful. There is a genre in there someplace, and whatever it is, it is my kind of genre.

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Drustan Seta spent his life fighting cryptids out of myths and legends. What that got him was PTSD, huge gaps in his memory, and an addiction to pain pills. When his only friend Frank goes missing, he believes that finding him might pull him out of his downward spiral. Instead, he gets sucked into a war between two factions bent on bringing back the old Gods and the magic they make possible. If either side prevails, it will mean the end of the world.


The Novel is available everywhere.

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