A band of misfit soldiers fight to defend a small village from maruading slavers.
The people of Serpent Springs—a small border town stuck between Gilgal’s struggling republic and Mournarasuul’s expansionist empire—wonder if it isn’t better to be on the winning side, no matter how morally bankrupt they may be.
In a last-ditch effort to win back their loyalty, a Republic Colonel hires Landon Amrett—an escaped slave turned mercenary—to lead a squad of soldiers into Serpent Springs. His orders are to keep the village loyal to Gilgal by any means necessary. If he can convince the villagers to fight for their freedom, they stand a good chance of chasing off Mournarasuul’s raiders.
If not, Amrett will stand alone against an empire…
Content Warning: This book contains fantasy violence, death, betrayal, slavery (including implications of sexual slavery), banditry, partial nudity, and some psychological trauma. Though this book is primarily for adult audiences, it is intended that anyone aged 13+ will be able to enjoy it.
AI Disclosure: This book was 100% written by a human being. I do not use any generative AI at any point in my writing process. That being said, I cannot completely rule out AI usage by my contributors during editing. Furthermore, modern search engines tend to push AI results over actual search results, so many of my grammar questions may have been answered by AI. In no case did I incorporate AI-generated text directly into my work, and at no time did I feed any part of my work into an AI for any reason.
