THE SHADOW KINGS

Tokyo has a second city beneath its neon streets. And something down there is building monsters.

Caelen Vance came to Japan following a trail of stolen Aether blood.

He finds something far worse.

Beneath Tokyo's corporate towers and black-market bazaars, hybrid blood is being harvested, rewritten and fed into synthetic creatures designed to adapt to the very powers meant to destroy them.

And someone powerful wants the evidence buried.

Caelen can bend gravity.

Rian Kuroda commands arc-lightning.

Evelyn Thorne can cut through space itself.

Together, Squad Seven should be capable of surviving almost anything.

Until their own academy brands them traitors.

With Valence operatives hunting them, Kuroda technology tracking their every move and engineered monsters learning from every attack, Caelen, Rian and Evelyn are forced deeper into a conspiracy connecting forbidden bloodlines, private armies and a mysterious faction known only as the Shadow Kings.

Every battle makes the creatures stronger.

Every clue makes the team more dangerous to the people who created them.

And somewhere beneath the city, a synthetic Leviathan is waking.

To expose the truth, Squad Seven must decide who they can trust when governments, corporations and magical authorities all want the same thing:

control of the blood that makes them powerful.

The Shadow Kings is a fast-paced dark urban fantasy packed with supernatural powers, monster battles, hidden bloodlines, corporate conspiracy, found-family banter and neon-soaked action.