"Its like you're two different people, Mr. Knight. One of you is a brilliant young man with a bright future, and the other is a slacker with no greater designs for his life than to see how badly he can fail. You need to decide which of those people you're going to be."Twenty-three-year-old college student Corbin Knight uses video games to escape a childhood mistake that destroyed his family. Unfortunately, the past he thought he put behind him resurfaces when an elf called Shadow returns with an ultimatum for his Beholden: honor your oath or die. Thanks to the Truman-Aelfking Accord, signed more than forty years before Corbin was even born, a pact between elf and Beholden, even a minor, is perfectly legal. Before Corbin can complete his task, he runs, literally, into Subtle Jewel, a shape-shifting dragon on the run from a secret U.S. government laboratory. Subtle Jewel has anger-management issues and a deep-rooted hatred for humans. Out of desperation, Corbin and Subtle Jewel grudgingly agree to help one another. Their tenuous alliance becomes friendship as they unearth dangerous secrets. Secrets that could upset the tenuous peace established by the Accord. Secrets that both sides will kill to protect. Caught between the human and faerie governments, Corbin and Subtle Jewel must rise above their troubled pasts and work together to stop a potential war between the realms. Or will they let their personal demons destroy them and possibly both the human and faerie realms?
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