Hunter by Night

By Annie Reed

For some people, the silver lining comes before the storm.

Colton’s happy life shattered into a million pieces when a changeling kidnapped his pregnant wife. The police never caught the kidnapper—difficult to do when a changeling can shift their appearance to look like anyone—so now Colton scours the city at night, hunting for that one creature who robbed him of everything that made life worth living.

But what he hunts down this night will change his life forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thunder Valley Press
• Release date: Aug 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463732656

Annie Reed

Award-winning author and editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch calls Annie Reed “one of the best writers I’ve come across in years.”Annie’s won recognition for her stellar writing across multiple genres. Her story “The Color of Guilt” originally published in Fiction River: Hidden in Crime, was selected as one of The Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016. Her story “One Sun, No Waiting” was one of the first science fiction stories honored with a literary fellowship award by the Nevada Arts Foundation, and her novel PRETTY LITTLE HORSES was among the finalists in the Best First Private Eye Novel sponsored by St. Martin’s Press and the Private Eye Writers of America.A frequent contributor to the Fiction River anthologies and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Annie’s recent work includes the superhero origin novel FASTER, the near-future science fiction short novel IN DREAMS, and UNBROKEN FAMILIAR, a gritty urban fantasy mystery short novel. Annie’s also one of the founding members of the innovative Uncollected Anthology, a quarterly series of themed urban fantasy stories written by some of the best writers working today.Annie’s mystery novels include the Abby Maxon private investigator novels PRETTY LITTLE HORSES and PAPER BULLETS, the Jill Jordan mystery A DEATH IN CUMBERLAND, and the suspense novel SHADOW LIFE, written under the name Kris Sparks, as well as numerous other projects she can’t wait to get to. For more information about Annie, including news about upcoming bundles and publications, go to www.annie-reed.com.

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Hunter by Night

Copyright © 2019 by Annie Reed

Published by Thunder Valley Press

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For some people, the silver lining comes before the storm.

Colton’s happy life shattered into a million pieces when a changeling kidnapped his pregnant wife. The police never caught the kidnapper—difficult to do when a changeling can shift their appearance to look like anyone—so now Colton scours the city at night, hunting for that one creature who robbed him of everything that made life worth living.

But what he hunts down this night will change his life forever.

One of the best writers I’ve come across in years.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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The little girl had the longest hair Colton had ever seen on a child.

She couldn’t have been more than five or six years old. She’d come into the pizzeria holding hands with a woman in her mid-thirties. Dark haired, both of them, with skin tones that gave them a Mediterranean look. Most of the little girl’s hair must have been in the bun at the back of her head at one time. Now it streamed down her back, little kid messy, until it reached the back of her thighs.

The woman wore a flax-colored linen dress that probably came off the rack at some upscale department store in the fashion district. The navy linen blazer she wore over the dress was at least one size too large on her bony frame. Her shoes, those clunky heels that may or