Descrip­tions

Depuis la Fusion entre la Terre et Sous-la-Colline, les elfes et les humains cohabitent dans un monde violent, peuplé de dragons et de créatures plus redoutables encore. Les Traqueurs sont les seuls à s’interposer entre la population et les terribles chiens-lézards, monstres échappés des Cours du Crépuscule.

Nécessaires mais craints, les Traqueurs sont souvent des marginaux, et c’est d’autant plus vrai pour Kai, un elfe qui a renié son Clan pour suivre les traces de Dempsey, son tuteur humain. Quand Ryder, un Haut Seigneur elfe qui compte implanter une Cour de l’Aube à San Diego, embauche Kai pour une mission, celui-ci est méfiant.

Pourtant, il s’agit simplement d’aller chercher une humaine enceinte qui a demandé asile et protection à Ryder. Une mission simple, rapide, et bien payée. C’est sans compter les dragons en pleine saison des amours et les manigances politiques des elfes. Et surtout, sans compter les sentiments ambivalents que Ryder produit sur Kai, lui qui a toujours cherché à mettre le plus de distance possible entre lui et les autres elfes.

Ever since he’d been part of the pot in a high-stakes poker game, elfin outcast Kai Gracen figured he’d used up any good karma he had when Dempsey, a human Stalker, won the hand and took him in. Following the violent merge of Earth and Underhill, the human and elfin races were left with a messy, monster-ridden world and Stalkers were often the only cavalry willing to ride to someone’s rescue when something shadowy and dark moved into the neighbourhood.

There certainly were no shortage of monsters or people stupidly willing to become lunch for one.

It was a hard life but one Kai liked. And he was good at it. Killing monsters was easy. Especially since he was one himself.

After an accident retired Dempsey out, Kai set up permanent shop in San Diego, contracting out to the local SoCalGov depot. It was a decent life, filled with bounty, a few friends and most importantly, no other elfin around to remind him he wasn’t really human.

That was until a sidhe lord named Ryder arrives in San Diego and Kai is conscripted to do a job for Ryder’s fledgling Dawn Court. It was supposed to a simple run; head up the coast during dragon-mating season to retrieve a pregnant human woman seeking sanctuary with the new Court then back to San Diego. Easy, quick and best of all, profitable. But Ryder’s “simple” run leads to massive trouble and Kai ends up being caught in the middle of a deadly bloodline feud he has no hope of escaping.

No one ever got rich by being a Stalker. But then hardly any of them got old either. The way things were looking, it didn’t look like Kai was going to be the exception.