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Courier
A Young Adult Paranormal / Urban Fantasy Short Story by Nicholas Woode-Smith
Companion Book to the Kat Drummond Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Dark Western,
- Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy,
- Antihero
This book is for you if you're into...
- Post-apocalyptic westerns with magic-blasted wastelands
- Antiheroes who shoot first and ask questions never
- Courier missions where the cargo could destroy everything
Red Dead Redemption meets The Witcher.
Always. Shoot. First.
That's what my dad always taught me. Always deliver. Trust no one. And put a bullet in them before they put one in you.
You don't survive as a courier in the magic-blasted Badlands by being soft. Everyone wants your cargo. Everyone wants you dead. And even so I've got some peculiar immunity to magic, that doesn't mean I can stop watching my back for even a second.
I've got some dangerous cargo to deliver. And Cataclysm damn me if I don't get the job done. Even if the package could potentially tear the Badlands apart…
My name is Ryder Miles. Arcane Courier.
Courier is a short story set in the urban fantasy Katverse, alongside the Kat Drummond and Cindy Giles series. If you love dark westerns, post-apocalyptic fantasy and gritty antiheroes, you'll love Ryder as he battles against brutal monsters, and the moral depravity of a world gone mad with magic.
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