"Hex Ronin Vol. 1: The Tear in the Night-Black Sky" by Dale Smith, coming March 2027

Today we announce our first foray into physical and eBook publishing with the novella Hex Ronin Volume 1: The Tear in the Night-Black Sky, coming March 23, 2027!

Written by Dale Smith (Doctor Who, Iris Wildthyme, The Black Archive) and cover art by Adam Markiewicz (Trench Coat Samurai), Hex Ronin is a new adventure series set in a world of mystery, mayhem and magic!

Over the next few months we will provide more details on the book and the world. In the meantime, here is the blurb!

"There are more than bad memories in this darkness."

Under the unforgiving sun on the plains of Sundenír, a boy marked by prophecy is dragged toward slavery and an uncertain destiny. For dormant within him is an apocalyptic power waiting to be unleashed.

Elsewhere is the Red Tower. Magickal. Lethal. Radiating ancient malevolence, it is a dark beacon calling to the boy, leading him to the edge of reality where impossible, monstrous things await.

But on their heels is a lightning-scarred warrior and his pistol-wielding companion.

The warrior is Xian, a Hexen gifted with attunement– he can weaponise electrical forces and even slow time itself. But this gift is not given freely, and like everything on Sundenír, the payment is in blood.

The woman - jaded gunslinger Miranda - has survived the unyielding lands of Sundenír by becoming fast and ruthless - but the battle-weary Xian makes it his mission to teach her how to be human again.

Standing against them is a powerful mage working beneath a tear in the night-black sky, as something ancient stirs at the edge of the world.

With ghosts on their heels, the Hexen warrior and the ingenue gunslinger embark on a hunt that races from bone-white forests to forgotten mines and, finally, into the Valley of Fallen Gods - where one choice could destroy reality itself.