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About the Series[]
- Genres: Young Adult, Futuristic Urban Fantasy, Post Apocalypse, Dystopian Series, Sword and Sorcery, Paranormal Paramilitary
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Series Description[]
The books take place about 250 years after an apocalypse that created a rift in the world and monsters came pouring in. The world have somewhat recovered. The majority of humanity live in protected communities and one of the protections are Hunters. The largest and capital is "Apex".
As the story opens Joyeaux Charmand (aka Joy) a 16 year old girl that has been a Hunter for 7 years, is sent for by her Uncle, to come to Apex and to join their Hunters, but she can't let on that she has been a Hunter that long. Even at 16 she is considered very young to be hunter. She also has the largest hound pack at seven, when most hunters only have 2 or 4.
Joy is well aware that since her Uncle is someone that is important that people could try and use her against him, so not only does she have to be careful of who to trust but also in what she says to everyone. She suspects that is exactly why she was sent for, that someone might have threatened her and thus would expose their secrets about Safehaven.
The Monster attacks become worse and the Hunters are hard pressed to keep the cits safe, not only does Joy have to learn to navigate this new world of her, but also survive against betrayal from within as well as the monsters.
Books in order[]
- Hunter (Hunter Series Book 1) (2015)
- Elite (Hunter Series Book 2) (2016)
- Apex (Hunter Series Book 3) (2017)
World Building[]
Setting[]
Our world about 250 years after apocalyptic events, takes place in North America Eastern seaboard.
The Apocalyptic events started as extreme weather caused by climate changes due to greenhouse gasses. The Christians thought it was the "Rapture" and were expecting to be taken up to heaven, when no one was raptured they decided that Armageddon needed a little help so they set off a nuclear bomb in the middle-east which created a rift between universe and let in the Othersiders (Monsters).
By the time of these stories, humanity had made something of a recovery but with the world taken over by monsters, all they could do was make safer or protected zones. Machines are utilized to help with food production out in the farming communities, where many of the towns are walled fortresses and the army maintains a presence with heavy armament. Communications is well established between communities and people.
The only people that fly are military in armed helicopters as there are too many monsters that fly and can take down an airplane. Most long distance travel is done on trains, where the trains run through electrified cages over them and the tracks, to keep the monsters away from the trains.
Fantasy and/or SciFi Elements[]
One person in a couple of hundred is born with the ability to do magic, but only about half of them become hunters. No one knows why some are selected to become hunters, it is the hounds that choose and create the glyphs. A hound can repudiate their hunter if that person changes or does something that the hound doesn't approve of, such as try and murder another Hunter.
Othersiders: Folks (Elves), Drakkens, Kraken, Leviathans, Gogs and Magogs, Furies, Harpies, Ogres, Knockers (Tommyknockers), Thunderbirds, Nagas,
Technology: Clothing fabricators, Helicopters, Modern Military arms, Trains, Vids, Perscom, Psi Shield,
Glossary[]
- Alebrije
- The Alebrijes are Colorful and significant, spirit guides in Aztec folklore.
- Bamphing
- Popping in and out of our real-space. Can be used for travel, but usually can only "Bamph" a short distance in line-of-sight.
- Cits
- Citizens officially, informally means "person who lives in a city".
- Diseray
- Originally pronounced "Dies Irae", meaning ‘Wrath of God.’
- Mandala
- Are tattooed over the actual Mandala. Every Hunter’s Mandala is a circular diagram, and every one is different.
- Magicians :Magic users that did not become hunters, usually join the army if their magic is strong enough.
- Perscom
- Combination, Personal Communications, watch, Tablet, vid viewer, reader, full service computer that they wear on their wrist.
- Psi-shields
- Tech used to protect mindreading from both the "folks" and from Psimons.
- Psimons
- Psychics.
- Othersiders
- The monsters and "folks" that came through the rift.
- Zapotec
- Otomanguean language of the Zapotec, native Mexican people.
World[]
| They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares.
Monsters. |
California is an Island (briefly mentioned) and monsters from folk lore, mythology and imaginations have flooded the world and the only semi-safe place is within barriers.
Few people are born with the ability to do magic, usually a type of magic that is steeped in one of the many old religions such as native American shaman, Celtic or far eastern. At some point usually during adolescents and if their magic is strong enough, they receive an unique scar / glyph (Mandala) on the back of both hands, the Mandala represents their "hounds" that come through a shadowy rift to help them battle the monsters. The pack of hounds is unique to each person and bonds with them, they can become solid when present in the human world. The hounds soak up the manna from the monsters that the Hunter's slay, which is what substance them. The hounds also have magic of their own, but usually just shields. Some breath fire and some fly. When the glyphs appear the new hunters are suppose to immediately go to the city Apex, the capital and where most people live, people that think they are safe. But a few of the far outlying communities keep and train their Hunters to protect their own citizens because the people of Apex don't really care about the people in those communities.
A few other people are born with psi abilities and they too are sent to Apex to become part of PsiCorps, they are called Psimon.
Protagonist[]
- Joyeaux Charmand
- Joy, a 16 years old hunter from a community of survivors in the Rocky Mountains. Her hounds came to her when she was nine but she had started weapons training when she was six. She is an orphan when as a toddler her community was over ran with monsters and both of her parents were killed. Her Uncle saved her and several other orphaned children and took them to the community of Safehaven where there is a monastery of all faiths, that train Hunters. Her Uncle returned to "Apex" after that and eventually became the Prefect of the Hunters and Police. When Apex needed more Hunters and to help deflect interest from the communities around "Safehaven" he sends for Joy, also because he knows he can trust her.
Characters[]
Joy's Hounds[]
Original pack: Most of the hunters "hounds" always look the same but some of the hounds can change shapes, colors and sizes. Bya can change to look like anything, including humans and they often change shape into multi-tentacle ropes to assist in tying someone or something up. Their natural appearance is very large, a few of them extremely large and multi colored with odd protuberance, spikes and tentacles. Sometimes they all appear as black greyhounds. They are called Zapotec hounds but all have of their names are of Tibetan deities.
- Bya - Pack leader and the smallest, but the size of a horse.
- Dusana -
- Begtse
- Chenresig
- Shinje
- Kalachakra
- Hevajra
- The first two hounds to join her pack after it was formed. Beefy, thick-boned, heavily muscled shadow-wolves, whose golden-eyed heads stood about hip high. They could not change shape, "Bamp" or talk to Joy, but Bya could talk with them.
- Hold
- Strike
- The last two additional hounds. Their eyes were silver, and they looked like two enormous, dark-silver gargoyles. Their heads were kind of a cross between a wolf and a big cat, with blunt muzzles and huge fangs. They can "Bamp" and talk to Joy telepathically.
- Myrrdhin - he becomes the pack co-leader, assistant to Bya
- Gwalchmai
Apex[]
- Josh Green - Psimon and Prefect Charmand's Psi-aide.
- Prefect Charmand - Joy's Uncle. In charge of the Hunters and the Police.
- Hunters:
- Karly - Assigned as Joy's mentor and helped her with navigating the ins and outs of the city and fan services.
- White Knight (aka Mark Knight) - has four "hounds" that are pure-white winged lions that he calls them angels.
Anston's Well, Safehaven[]
- Masters:
- Kedo Patli - Also has Alebrije hounds. Originally from Mexico
- Dineh (Navajo) Masters (not named) -
- Ivor Thorson - Teaches Norse magic and traditions.
- Lady Rhiannon - Teaches Celtic magic and Lore.
- Shinji -
- Others:
Brief Book Descriptions[]
- Hunter (Hunter Series Book 1) (2015)
- To Joyeaux Charmand, who has been a Hunter in her tight-knit mountain community since she was a child, every Cit without magic deserves her protection from dangerous Othersiders. Then she is called to Apex City, where the best Hunters are kept to protect the most important people.
- Joy soon realizes that the city's powerful leaders care more about luring Cits into a false sense of security than protecting them. More and more monsters are getting through the barriers, and the close calls are becoming too frequent to ignore. Yet the Cits have no sense of how much danger they're in-to them, Joy and her corp of fellow Hunters are just action stars they watch on TV. Read More ...
- Elite (Hunter Series Book 2) (2016)
- Joy knows she'll be facing more dangerous Othersiders than ever before as a new member of the Elite Hunter unit, but if anyone is up to the challenge it's her. She's been Hunting these monsters since she was a child, and has a pack of eleven fiercely protective magical Hounds. Then the rules change. Monsters unlike any Joy's ever seen or even heard of are breaking through Apex City's barriers, and the Hunters are scrambling to find new ways to fight them-all the while hiding the true danger Apex faces from the Cits, who are ignorant of the severity of the Othersiders' attacks. Read More ...
- Apex (Hunter Series Book 3) (2017)
- Being a member of the Elite Hunter Command imperils Joy in more ways than one. In their latest clash with Othersiders, the army of monsters nearly wiped them out. Apex City is safe? For now. But within the city barriers, Joy must wage a different kind of war.
- The corrupt and powerful PsiCorps is determined to usurp the Hunters as chief defenders of Apex City and Joy is now squarely in their crosshairs. Unused to playing political games, she has very few people she can truly trust-not even Josh, her first friend in Apex City, who broke up with her when it became too dangerous for a Psimon to be dating a Hunter. Read More ...