Heritage Blade

In this thrilling young adult urban fantasy by acclaimed author L.L. McKinney, a Black boy with a bounty on his head uses his powers to protect mankind while searching for a mysterious girl who may have the answers he needs.

Fifteen-year-old James “Jay” Mitchell is the most lethal secret walking the streets of Chicago—as long as no one knows.

Jay Mitchell, the boy of blood and magic, is trained to protect mankind from supernatural beings who cross into this world through Pandora’s Box. He’s good at what he does, so long as no one knows he does it. See, Jay doesn’t exactly have permission to hunt these nasties, and if the Guild—they’re pretty much the paranormal police—finds out, well…folk who break their rules tend to get handled one of two ways: imprisonment or execution. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

So when Jay gets outed to the Guild after attempting to rescue a damsel faking distress, he’s a wanted man on two fronts: the Guild on heels and the monsters who have put a bounty on his head. But, it all keeps coming back to the girl who started this nonsense—the girl who is MIA.

Jay knows something ain’t right—it smells like a setup—but if he’s going to get the Guild off his back and the bounty off his head, Jay will need to track her down and get some answers…before everything that goes bump in the night arrives to collect.