A Blade Before Dawn

In A Blade Before Dawn, sixteen-year-old Lyra has spent her entire life preparing for the day she will become a hunter.

The Fae of Elaris have protected humanity from vampires for generations, relying on speed, strength, discipline, and steel rather than magic. For Lyra, Micah, Brannock, Farren, and their friends, becoming hunters has always felt like a distant future—until a routine trip beyond the city walls becomes the last moment of normal life they will ever know.

After returning home, an emergency alert tears through Elaris:

SOUTH GATE BREACHED. ALL AVAILABLE HUNTERS ASSEMBLE. ARMED RESPONSE. IMMEDIATE DEPARTURE.

Vampires have entered the city.

What begins as their first true taste of adulthood becomes a desperate battle for survival as trained hunters fight through the night to hold back an enemy that was never supposed to get this far. Lyra and her friends are forced to discover how quickly training becomes instinct when the people they love are trapped behind the walls with them.

By sunrise, Elaris will still be standing.

But nothing inside it will ever be the same.

A Blade Before Dawn is a fast-paced urban fantasy filled with Fae hunters, vampires, friendship, brutal combat, dark humor, and the terrifying moment when a new generation realizes the war they trained for has finally come to them.