Hard Hand

Hard Hand

Quadras is seeing major changes, which means major headaches for the Inquisition.

As the humans roll into the city, they need places to live and work. Infrastructure expansion comes with a whole lot of money changing hands.

It sounds simple enough, but things in the four-faced city are never that easy.

There are the usual shady contractors, corrupt inspectors, and greedy politicians to contend with. Not to mention the anti- and pro-integration activists clashing over their ideals.

In short, it is a recipe for disaster.

The only thing standing in the way of tensions bubbling over are the brave Inquisitors.

Who gets the call when things heat up with a dead clan rep, a missing goblin, and enough political pressure to stop an ogre’s heart?

None other than resident heroes, Inquisitors Doughas and Vor.

But even our heroes are going to have their hands full as sinister undertones to their investigation emerge and the specter of a new threat to the city arises.

How it will pan out is anyone's guess, but it is certain that Quadras will never be the same again.

Can Doughas and Vor overcome the odds stacked against them and save the city yet again?

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About the Author
Aaron D. Schneider

with Michael Anderle

Aaron was born to parents who taught him two very important things: truth matters and imagination is not a crime.

Our protagonist has spent the rest of his life trying to live out those two maxims, much to the chagrin of every unfortunate around him (progenitors included).

As such, by age six or seven, he was writing stories about a dark, reptilian avenger who brought final, painful justice to the guilty- with unsettling illustrations to boot. His beloved and benighted parents realized that budding sociopathy would simply not do, and so they began introducing him to tales of great and good heroes. First the account of a certain carpenter, then a hairy-footed burglar, then a savior lion, and after that point our protagonist was plunging face first and arms out into a world of heroism both real and imagined. While far from a hero himself, he has endeavored to try and capture that same bowed but unbroken spirit that dwells in a dark and ugly world, because that as far as he can tell is what makes it all worth it.

Along this rambling, dreaming way he managed to find a woman he could bamboozle into loving him, and then even have children with, Lord have mercy on them all.

Now Aaron has managed to cram no few exciting jobs and hair-raising experiences into his life so far, and God help him, he hopes for many more. It is these that drive his captured glimpses of something epic. If you have the time you should pull up a chair, grab a beer, light a pipe, or whatever your pre-literary consumption ritual may be and give them a look. It is been said they are truly monstrous, but as any true hero knows, monsters often guard treasure.

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