Billy Thinx Saga · 2026 · Interlude

The Harlan Vales Chronicles

Book 4.5 of the Billy Thinx Saga

Synopsis

On Altranga Twelve, even gravity can turn against you, and Harlan Vales has learned to make it work for him. White-haired and quiet, armed with a curved blade and shadowed by Karo, a black wolf-dog who senses trouble before it surfaces, Harlan makes his living hunting things most people wouldn’t survive meeting. He has little patience for threats and even less for anyone who mistakes his silence for permission.

Then a slaughtered beast and a burning settlement put him on a trail no bounty can settle. The Vyr Syndicate is carving its mark across the frontier, and beneath the planet’s shifting crust, ancient seals are failing. Something the Lyrans buried long ago is waking. Harlan’s mixed human and Lyran blood makes him more than a man caught in its path. It makes him someone both sides need.

With Karo at his side, Harlan descends into buried ruins and into a history powerful people would prefer he never understood. A Lyran envoy arrives bearing warnings, carefully measured answers, and the name of another hybrid: Billy Thinx. But being handed a purpose is not the same as being told the truth.

Harlan knows how to survive a fight. Now he must learn who deserves his trust, what his bloodline has made him part of, and how much saving this world will cost.