Empire of Sand in Bloomington, MN

Liam is a trained killer-meticulous, cunning, an artist with a knife.
Cat is his protégée-wild, reckless, a girl lost.
They're young.
They're beautiful.
They kill monsters.
Egypt, 1866. A terror is unleashed upon Cairo.
A predator that travels under a cloak of storms and lurks amongst the dunes.
It reigns like a king in an empire of sand and kills with human-like precision.
Its prey of choice: man.
Liam can't resist the allure of the ultimate kill.
Cat has a vendetta against all unnatural creatures.
They're deadly.
They're invincible.
They're being hunted.
From the author of
Love in a Time of Monsters
comes an electrifying prequel that invites you to live fast, die young, and shed a little blood.