The Underground (PB) (2019)

They're destined to save the preternatural world. But one of them is willing to let everyone die...

Seattle, Washington. Garrett Larkin is terrified of failing. Chosen to cast a powerful spell, the ambitious mage feels the pressure to rescue the entire supernatural community from the city's humans, who'd like nothing more than to annihilate them. But the shifter she needs to complete the mystical tryst to protect their kind flat-out refuses.

Alpha werewolf Parker Berenson is falling apart. A blood-slave to the vampire Master who uses him for his own entertainment, Parker is plummeting into a self-destructive cycle of drunken escapades, wreaking havoc in Seattle's bars and threatening to expose his true nature - an automatic death sentence. As for him, even if every last paranormal in the city perishes, there's no way he's working with the witch and the bloodsucker who abused him.

With a series of grisly murders stoking the tension between bloodthirsty humans and preternatural creatures to the breaking point, Garrett resolves to bring the wounded lycanthrope to heel at any cost. But when Parker falls hard for a fierce alien warrior-queen, his eye turns away from the conflict around him and onto one in the stars.

Can Garrett convince Parker to help her before the deepening crisis erupts into a full-scale massacre?

The Underground is the gripping first book in The Underground urban fantasy science fiction romance mashup series. If you like savage heroes, brutal battles, and thoughtful looks at persecution, then you'll love Roxanne Bland's dark drama.

**TRIGGER WARNING** Contains profanity, depictions of disturbing violence, and graphic sex that may make some readers uncomfortable.