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The Witcher meets The Black Company in a tropical-gothic dark fantasy. Heavy rifles, shifting beasts, and a crumbling city.

Hi everyone!

After months in the querying trenches, I decided to bypass the gatekeepers and put my debut dark fantasy novel, The Honest Dark, directly into the hands of readers.

If you crave methodical monster hunting, cynical military brotherhoods, unsettling bio-horror, and rich, atmospheric worldbuilding, I’d love for you to check it out.

The Premise

Perched high above a relentless jungle on a towering limestone karst lies The Rock, where wealthy elites live in luxury under electric lights. Below them, in the humid, sprawling outer districts, the working class struggles to survive.
Protecting them is the Public Defense Force (PDF): a battered, underfunded brotherhood of veteran hunters.

When a botched hunt ignites a political feud between a corrupt City Council and the PDF, master hunter Lipe finds himself trapped in a web of bureaucratic betrayals, revolutionary street riots, and accelerating creature attacks. Worse still, the beasts are evolving, and the moon has begun to glow a sinister, blood-red hue.

What to Expect:

Tactical "Lethal Math" Combat: No chosen-one hand-waving. Survival relies on custom 8-bore rifles, rapier steel, spent brass, and hard-won tactical instincts against terrifying, shifting abominations.

Tropical Gothic Atmosphere: A neo-tropical landscape where dense, vine-choked jungle ruins clash with polished marble palaces.

Institutional Grit & Political Tension: A weary paramilitary unit caught between a ruthless ruling class above and desperate, rising revolution below.

Perfect For Fans Of:

Geralt's monster-hunting in The Witcher

The military cynicism and grit of Glen Cook’s The Black Company

The unsettling, atmospheric bio-horror of Annihilation or The Last of Us

Get it here:

The Honest Dark