Countering the Hands of Crime
by Elise CarlsonPublish: Apr 16, 2025Series: Sythe SeriesScience Fiction FantasyBook Overview
Rarkin has formed a Syther Team with three of his classmates. It should be easy enough; containing low level monsters for Monster Containment. But Rarkin’s doing it with the additional challenge of needing to learn to trust his team completely, to somehow let down the walls he’s had up for self preservation, after fifteen years of being raised by an abusive father.Just as he’s beginning to make progress, a new classmate joins the team. She’s surprisingly capable in all areas, for a ‘new student,’ particularly in magic wielding. Rarkin suspects Milahara has serious secrets of her own. But he’s barely begun to gauge her true capacity when their team begins working under far from normal conditions.
Not only is crime boss Mavon still at large, he’s as clever and capable as Rarkin suspected, and less than half as rational. Worse, a second crime boss has gone rogue. Between the two of them, Sythe’s resources are stretched thin, and Rarkin finds his team taking on missions they’re barely experienced enough to handle, at the very edge of their monster containing and fledgling magical capabilities.
But Rarkin and his team’s external danger this time isn’t getting caught on the front lines of Sythe’s struggle against crime bosses. Its Sythe being caught in the crossfire, as two rival crime bosses utilise every black market magical and monstrous means their vast illegal trade networks make available, in an all-out war against each other.
