Open this book, and you're unfolding a creased and bloodstained map of the backroads to Hell. Among the stops you'll make - a suburban neighborhood under the onslaught of a month's worth of bloody rain, the office where an investigator to the Damned keeps a bottle of bourbon to comfort the Fallen, and the floodlit stage where tomorrow's predators cloak their ambitions in pomp and pageantry. The road to perdition is paved with a thousand stories just like this. You can meet us at the crossroads.

As a military journalist, Rachel A. Brune wrote and photographed the Army and its soldiers for five years. When she moved on, she didn't quit writing stories with soldiers in them, just added werewolves, sorcerers, a couple evil mad scientists, and a Fae or two. She is the author of the secret agent werewolf series, The Rick Keller Project, now available from Falstaff Books. This is her second short-story collection.