Not quite human, not quite beast. Not quite female, not quite male. Sometimes hunter. Sometimes prey. Always alone. Until them.
Fiend hunter Sam "Sabertooth" Forest is used to being on the outskirts. A cur with a mix of shifter and human blood, Sam can't fully shift to the beast but can't fully pass as human. Through sheer determination, and a desire to protect the broken shifter woman who raised them, Sam has managed to seek out a place of their own in a world devastated by the rift that allowed monsters to spill into the earth plane. Sam hunts monsters, sometimes curs and mongrels just like Sam. The work might be dangerous, and the humans might want to put the mixed breed hunter on their hitlist, but it's a job. It's freedom. Sam works alone and trusts no one.
The next hunt should bring in a big bounty, big enough to pay the pack extortion fee and keep Sam's adoptive mother safe through winter. But when a Leprechaun horns in on the unicorn hunt and tricks Sam into forming a hunter's guild, Sam is suddenly burdened by an overabundance of people.
Setting off to hunt one-horned murder beasts with an annoying leprechaun and a nerdy half-ogre is bad enough. But when you add in a betrayal by the seductive siren Sam has loved since childhood, and the machinations of a rich human politician, well...Sam's simple, lonely little life just got a whole lot more complicated.
