When Verity Price came to New York, she was given a year to make up her mind: did she want to follow her dreams as a professional ballroom dancer, or follow the family tradition as a cryptozoologist? Unfortunately, when passions and duties collide, you don’t always get to choose the option you like. More and more, she’s been called upon in the latter role, both protecting and hunting the cryptids of New York as the occasion demands. And as that year draws to an end, she’s about to face the roughest challenge of her career.
It starts when Verity’s boyfriend Dominic tells her that his own bosses, the Covenant of St. George, have dispatched a team to check on his work. Problem 1) When the Covenant shows up, cryptids die. Problem 2) The Covenant regards Verity’s family as traitors to the human race, and thinks they’re all dead. If they show up and find Verity and realize just who she is…things could get really ugly.
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