The Breaking (Skinners)

“One of the most underrated paranormal fantasy sagas out there.”—Paul Goat Allen“An action-packed, blood-soaked ripsnorter of a monster-hunter series.”—Tom Piccirilli, author of The Midnight Road“Twilight fans hungering for more vampire/werewolf drama can look forward to Skinners.”—USA TodayHumankind’s last defense against the darkness, Skinners are back in The Breaking. Book five in Marcus Pelegrimas’s phenomenal dark, nonstop urban fantasy series finds creature-hunters Paige and Cole desperately trying to forestall the Apocalypse in the face of terrifying shapeshifter carnage and inexplicable threats from fellow Skinners. Fans of Jim Butcher and dedicated Halo gamers will be swept away by The Breaking, and the other installments in series Barnes and Noble previously named among the Year’s Best Paranormal Fantasies.

Paul Goat Allen

“Arguably one of the most underrated paranormal fantasy sagas out there. . . . Marcus Pelegrimas is the Bram Stoker of the 21st Century”

From the Back Cover

Shapeshifters, vampires, and all manner of monstrosities are raining hell down on a small western town—which is why Skinner Paige Strobel is headed there with a band of Old World Skinners who have been battling monsters for centuries using antiquated, yet oddly effective weaponry. Meanwhile, Paige's sometime-partner/sometime-lover Cole Warnecki is being held prisoner by persons—or things—unknown: framed, tortured, and beaten for the slaughter of cops at a vampire warehouse in Denver.For Paige and Cole, a search for answers has become a battle for survival. The future of unsuspecting humankind is balanced on a knife blade. And the Apocalypse is a certainty unless they can uncover the truth behind a terrible force powering monsters and hunters alike . . . and find out why—after horrific werewolf attacks in KC and bloody carnage in Philly—Skinners are suddenly, inexplicably, turning against Skinners . . .

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