JackPointer mage Winterhawk hadn’t planned to accompany the expert team he’d hired to study ley lines in Boston’s Quarantine Zone. But he also hadn’t planned on a shocking and unexpected secret from his past catching up with him either. When the trip inside the Zone goes catastrophically wrong, ’Hawk finds himself alone in hostile territory—but his presence hasn’t gone unnoticed. His only way out is to do something a shadowrunner is never, ever supposed to make a deal with a dragon. Faced with three separate missions to complete and limited time to do them, ’Hawk needs allies fast. He finds them in unexpected places—including his original target, who needs a lot less rescuing than he thought. But she’s also nothing like he expected—and the complications she brings with her jeopardizes their chances of escaping the Zone alive...
R. L. King is the author of the Amazon-bestselling urban fantasy series The Alastair Stone Chronicles.
When not doing her best to make life difficult for her characters, she works as a software technical writer for a large Silicon Valley database company.
She also freelances for Catalyst Game Labs, publisher of the popular roleplaying game Shadowrun, where she's contributed fiction and game material to numerous sourcebooks and one full-length adventure, "On the Run," which was included as part of the 2012 Origins-Award-winning "Runners' Toolkit."
Her first novel in the Shadowrun universe, "Borrowed Time," was published in Spring 2015. She's working on her second Shadowrun novel, "Veiled Extraction," which will be released in late 2016 or early 2017.
When not writing or working, she enjoys hanging out with her very understanding spouse and her small herd of cats, and watching way too much Doctor Who.