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<\/a>To read the first chapter, please click on the cover image.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It\u2019s rough being a Horseman.<\/p>\n
Over the last six months, Nikki Jeffries has learned that everything she thought she knew about herself was wrong.\u00a0 Now, as the semi-mythical Horseman Death, she\u2019s watching her world literally fall apart at the seams, despite her best efforts to save it.\u00a0 The World Walls are nearly gone, and all sorts of Blood and Chaos creatures are hunting innocents.\u00a0 The government\u2019s Department V, tasked with protecting the population from just such incursions, is overwhelmed and outgunned.<\/p>\n
Not that Nikki can help them \u2013 she\u2019s currently topping their \u201cMost Wanted\u201d list, right beside fugitive multi-millionaire Alex Masterson, whom she happens to be hiding.\u00a0 And she\u2019s got other problems.\u00a0 Department V has captured her mentor, the Horseman Plague has been corrupted by her enemies, and she still doesn\u2019t know the identity of the Horseman War.\u00a0 Somehow, Nikki has to pull everything together and finish the Cleansing before the Walls collapse completely.<\/p>\n
Then, just when she thought things couldn\u2019t get any worse, Nikki discovers the true destiny she\u2019s been trying very hard to avoid\u2026<\/p>\n