The School of Harder Knocks Books
A teenage boy with a terminal condition, a group of school bullies, and an incognito Empress with a short temper… Kirian Larsen knows he won’t live to see adulthood. Dex and his gang only care that he’s a human living on “their” planet. Their determination to make his life harder bothers Kirian less than their efforts to do the same for their other victims. What can he do, bound to his wheelchair and dealing with unimaginable, unending pain? Fight back, and damn the consequences. Kirian’s refusal to submit to the hand life has dealt him gets the attention of his new physical therapist, a human doctor with a hidden past who has recently moved to High Tortuga. Dr. Ericson isn’t the only human arrival to the planet previously known as Devon. Rumors of the Empress’ Witch taking over the planet are proven by the vacancies opening up in the planet’s government and criminal enterprises. Baba Yaga’s bloody Justice is unavoidable for the corrupt. A reckoning is coming for the bullies—both in the schoolyard and the planet’s places of power. Can Kirian put an end to Dex’s reign without crossing a line he can’t come back from? Will Baba Yaga find a way to ensure the vision she has for the planet doesn’t crumble the moment she returns to the Empire? Scroll up and click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE and grab your copy today to escape into an undiscovered part of the Kurtherian Gambit Universe!
A recruitment drive, an underground fight club, and an Empress unleashed. Kirian is still the only student at the Institute. Baba Yaga orders Lerr’ek to change that— yesterday . Lerr’ek has no clue how to find others worthy of the opportunity the Institute offers. Luckily for him, Kirian has a suggestion and Operation First Class commences. What can he do when his offer is rejected? Lerr’ek isn’t the type to give up at the first obstacle. He digs deeper into the circumstances that brought about the founding of the Institute to locate other potential recruits. What he discovers causes Baba Yaga to rain vengeance on High Tortuga’s underground. As above, so below. The changes Stephen is working for on the surface of the city are mirrored in the undercity as Baba Yaga dismantles the culture of violence festering at the heart of Shrillexian society by force. Kirian comes face to face with his demons when new recruits are identified in the wake of the upheaval wreaked by the Witch. Can the past be forgiven for the sake of the future? Or will Baba Yaga’s solution tear apart more than the fabric of society? Scroll up and click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE to grab your copy and return to the reformation of High Tortuga today!