Self-described ‘hero in training’ Xeno Alistel is fresh off an epic adventure: he’s rescued his best friend, stopped a few nefarious plots, and joined up with the most famous monster hunters in the world. He’s ready to prove himself, and he just might get the chance. But when the mysterious town of East Meadow summons him with a cryptic letter, he starts to suspect that a monster isn’t the source of the city’s missing people. With his first taste of real adventure, Xeno starts to realize maybe he wasn’t as ready to be a hero as he thought. Because in a world of monsters, where his allies sail on airships and his best friend can cast magic with funny words, there are some things that are real and some things that aren’t. And a supernatural spirit haunting the town for past sins was not something he was ready to contend with…

When Xeno Alistel and his best friend Rhiley Uran crash their airship into the heart of the deserted Saruta Grasslands, things look like they could have gone a lot worse: until a roving band of goblins ask the two to lead their armies into a war between tribes. The stakes? The goblin’s most sacred possession: coffee beans.

In a wretched little fishing village baking under the sun lives a girl who’s out of place. Her smile is too bright and her eyes are too cheery to account for the dark, tired bags beneath them. Day after day she works to make her town a little better: the town with the moldy water well and the villagers passed out in weeds. Day after day her light grows dimmer, suffocated by the purple fog the villagers smoke to cope. Plagued by nightmares, exhausted and on the brink, Leorah Lache finds herself haunted by a moth: and she will stop at nothing to ignore it.