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5310 Publishing 2022

On Honey Beaumont's sixteenth birthday, he heard about a group of adventurers who had stopped a crime ring of highway robbers in New Texas. After sixteen years in an abusive home and then getting adopted just to become a "house-boy," Honey decided to leave his past behind and join The Adventurer's Guild. The Guild is a group of people who stand for justice and serve the commoner, as long as they can pay. Honey wanted nothing more but to travel around the world helping people. Illiterate and ill-prepared for a war-torn world, Honey embarks on the journey of a lifetime with the Guild. With newfound skills and friends in tow, he needs to find the strength and courage to return to his abusive home and save the love of his life. Embarking on a journey of a lifetime, being a hero is harder than Honey ever imagined, but at least he has his friends by his side to help him save the day.

5310 Publishing 2021

In a land destroyed by war, at a time that mirrored the excitements and dangers of the Old West, at a place where both magic and machine collide... a hero will rise from the darkest depths to the glory of freedom and honour. This hero is Honey Beaumont. The Adventurer's Guild stands for justice and serves the common man, provided they can pay. With newfound skills and friends in tow, only one hero can find the strength and courage to return to the man who tried to destroy him and make things right for his people. Embarking on a journey of a lifetime, being a hero is harder than he could have ever imagined, but at least he has his friends by his side to help him save the day.

Sara Bushway 2023

Once upon a time, in the Black Forest - of all places - there was a little girl who wore a red hood. Her mother told her to take some goodies to her sick grandmother to make her feel all better. Little red riding hood happily obliged, packing her basket with all manner of sweets, baked goods, jams, honey, and milk. Once her basket was completely full, she set off into the woods to Grandmother's house. Along the way, she met a wolf. That's pretty much where the fairytale stops being accurate. You see, her name wasn't Little Red Riding Hood, it was Crimson, and it wasn't a wolf. It was a waerwolf. She wasn't afraid, because she had been training to hunt them since she was a child. She did, however, lead the waerwolf back to Grandma's because Grandma was also a Red Hood and was ready with her crossbow in hand when they arrived. And the huntsman? That was Grandma's supporter, a black hood who pledged his life to her in the service of killing waerwolves and keeping the Black Forest safe. That story has been told for generations to all of the girls who dream of wearing the red hood and serving the village. I've probably heard that story a thousand times and for a good reason. Crimson, the first Red Hood to train under the great huntress Grandma, was my grandmother. Now, at the tender age of 17, it's my turn to take up the mantle and join the hunt. The only problem is I have already tried and failed once before. And even worse, I lost my arm in the process. The competition to be trained as Red Hood is fierce, and the girls who desire to fill those training positions are conniving. Despite the loss of my arm, I continued my training in the hopes of getting a second chance, and now my time has come. The leaves of the Ollar Tree have turned red, a clear signal that it's time to train new huntresses to beat back the scourge of the Black Forest and show those nasty waers who's boss. My name is Sanguine, and I will earn my way into the Red Hoods, even if I have to give up my other arm to do it.

Sara Bushway 2024

In this gripping sequel to Red Hoods: First Hunt, Sanguine, Poppy, Ember, and Cinder find themselves summoned to the Black Forest by the Red Hoods to join the other packs in hunting waerwolves, a tradition that has persisted for generations. Though she survived the first hunt, she is still plagued with nightmares about the waerwolf they killed to earn their place among the huntresse - the waerwolf who turned into a man. As far as she knew, her secret lay buried beneath the large stone in a clearing, but for how long? With the addition of a new packmate named Coal, Sanguine has to quickly decide how much she can trust him and how to investigate the waerwolves' origins without drawing the attention of the rest of the Red Hoods. Who can she trust? She must learn the truth.

Sara Bushway 2020

Sometimes the truth becomes wedged between the darkness of the unknown and the reality we create for ourselves. It's messy and complicated. Sometimes fiction provides fertile soil for a pleasant rose to sprout and bloom beyond the threshold of darkness, truth, and the unknown to bring beauty back into the world.