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Vigil's Valor - Updated Cover Art

Hey everyone! Decided to get the cover art for book 2 updated and wanted to share! Please, let me know what you think in the comments.

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Wasteland Warlords Episode 2 - 3 A Pig’s Tale

As the strobing orbs descended on the shadowmen, the full swarm of locusts took to the air, their wings buzzing like a ten-thousand watt bulb, and turned on the shadowmen. Every other attack they...

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Shadowcroft Year 3 - Chapter Twenty-Two

Logan didn’t exactly smell in the human sense of the word, but all of his senses reeled after being on Sucrosia for five minutes. They walked through a candy forest where birds like Easter peeps ...

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Wasteland Warlords Episode 2 - 2 Squealing Skirmish

Clay and Alex found an old stack of broken-down cardboard boxes in the GameStop back room. Those would make excellent kindling, but they wouldn’t keep a fire going long or hot enough to cook anyt...

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Wasteland Warlords Episode 2 - 1 Gamestop and Chill

“Will you watch your lightning lances?” Alex snapped. “That’s the second time in two rooms.”

“Two rooms and a corridor,” Joe corrected. “And it’s not my fault Chonk wanted t...

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Shadowcroft Academy for Dungeons - Free Book 1

As I promised, here is a free copy, courtesy of Shadow Alley Press, of Shadowcroft Academy for Dungeons - Book 1. Just click the link below to start reading on your preferred device!

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James Hunter - Project Updates!

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven’t been on to reply to comments for a while. Things have been crazy around here. We had DragonCon, which is always a great event, but it sure is a lot of work and hardl...

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Vigil's Valor: 51 – Aftermath

Telent’s trial went exactly how I expected.

Which is to say he was guilty as hell and everyone knew it. Aside from the pile of corpses down in the Simulator room and an explicit confession ...

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Vigil's Valor: 50 – Ravenous

The grizzly charged on all fours and knocked Kol face first into the stone wall. In his altered form, Kol had to weigh in at a thousand pounds, but the Elder Bear didn’t even seem to notice.

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Vigil's Valor: 49 – Get Wrecked

Then there was a mechanical roar and an otherworldly squeal of agony.

It was the thunder of suppressive fire followed by the pain of something learning about what a machine gun was for the fi...

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Vigil's Valor: 48 – Sales Pitch

At midnight, I stood in the in the center of the Nexus Simulator, buried deep beneath the bowels of the Citadel. The air felt thick and muggy with raw essence. Above me was the vaulted patchwork do...

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Vigil's Valor: 47 – Preparations

I left Pascow to his work, knowing I would only slow him down.

He was a Sage-Class builder with more experience crafting weapons then I could amass in a lifetime. Besides, he didn’t want my...

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Vigil's Valor: 46 – Band of Unreliable Misfits, Assemble!

The work went quickly, but for the plan I had in mind, there were a lot of moving parts. If any one of them hit a snag, chances were good we would end up dead. But that was a problem for future Boy...

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Vigil's Valor: 45 – The Revelation

Kerra looked at me with confusion painted across her face but nodded as I escorted her from the ballroom while everyone continued to cheer over the death and dismemberment of the Chaos Aberration. ...

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Vigil's Valor: 44 – Party Favors

Lady Hargreeves was at least two inches taller than me and had to be close to two-hundred and fifty pounds. It wasn’t fat, either. She was jacked. Her muscles had muscles. She was also pushing ei...

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Vigil's Valor: 43 - Practiced Indifference

“I look like a goddamned clown,” I growled at Kerra.

It was true. I knew because Cal couldn’t stop laughing whenever he thought I wasn’t looking. He also openly laughed in my face whe...

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Vigil's Valor: 42 - His Majesty, the King

As if my night hadn’t already been long and weird enough, when Cal and I finally made it back to the Citadel there was another unexpected surprise waiting for me.

My sleeping quarters had b...

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Vigil's Valor: 41 - Good News, Bad News

“Cal,” I hollered, “we need to shatter the Soul Jar. If we can break that, I think the Remnant should dissipate.”

“Don’t sweat it, Boyd. This is my territory and I’m about to ma...

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Vigil's Valor: 40 - Lost Souls

NOTE FROM JAMES: Hey everyone, just a reminder that Vigil's Justice (Book 1) is live on Amazon and on Audible (narrated by the awesome Luke Daniels). If you get a chance, 2022-08-23 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Vigil's Justice - Book Release!

Hey everyone! This is James and I'm excited to announce that Vigil Bound book 1 (Vigil's Justice) goes live on Amazon tomorrow. I'll be honest, book launches always make me super nervous and this o...

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Vigil's Valor: 39 - The Baker’s Boy

“Excuse me?” I said, as the matronly madame excused herself.

The woman on the bed sniffled and swiped at tear-filled eyes with the back of one hand. She was a slight woman, maybe a hundre...

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Vigil's Valor: 38 – Tiers of Delight

The game plan was to wake up early.

To spend the whole day breaking down doors.

Finding answers.

Kicking ass and taking names.

Instead, I slept for sixteen hours. Sixteen. H...

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Vigil's Valor: 37 – Cosmic Horror Study Hall

“What the fuck,” Cal and I both said at the same instant.

Had I accidentally just killed Renholm?

“Holy shit, look at that,” Cal said, hunching forward.

Pieces of exploded...

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Vigil's Valor: 36 - An Appropriate Level of Vengeance

After we got done, I used Pascow’s private altar to pay a quick visit to my Soul Vault. I dropped off my new weapon skin and spent a handful of minutes re-specing once again. I’d given Kerra he...

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Vigil's Valor: 33 - Sweat Equity

The door to the Steel Griffin let out a subtle groan as I pushed my way into the shop. This time around there were a couple of young Vigil’s I hadn’t met yet, perusing the barrels of Soul Weapo...

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Vigil's Valor: 34 - Relics and Rarities

Relics and Rarities was a stuffy store that smelled like sandalwood and old leather. The walls were dark mahogany, the floors hard wood covered in sprawling, drab gray rugs. A crystal chandelier da...

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Vigil's Valor: 33 – Ascended

Like Kerra, I also intended to get some answers, but before I went kicking the hornet’s nest, I figured it was best to put some boots on. No point in getting stung worse than I had too. That mean...

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Vigil's Valor: 32 – Homecoming

We rode into Wildespell around noon like conquering heroes, our spirits high, everyone excited to get back to the Citadel and hit up an altar. Berk, Colin, and Marina had all ascended to the Discip...

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Wasteland Warlords: Chapter 14 - Brute Force

There was a sudden jerk as the pressure around Clay loosened just a hair. He cracked his eyes and saw, much to his surprise, Chonk clinging to Katotes’ arm, gnawing at his gargantuan wrist with j...

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Vigil's Valor: 31 – Kraken Killjoy

I dismissed my shotgun and swapped it out for my axe. None of my weapon forms would work while stuck under the water with a tentacle wrapped around my gut and a hungry kraken beak clamped over my t...

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