The Guardian of The Palace by Steven J Morris

Everyone knows magic isn’t real.

Alien invaders? Ha!

But something destroyed an entire skyscraper in a never-before-seen implosion. Can one skeptical security guard stand between monsters and magic that threaten the world?

Disillusioned with her military career, Red Hernandez crawled back to civilian life as a second tier security lead for an engineering marvel meant to cram more people into the tiny island of Manhattan. She expected her biggest struggles to be integrating back into a society where social media and closet space reigned supreme. But when mysterious forces destroy a building similar to the one she’s chartered to protect, in an implosive blast never before seen, all notions of a cushy retirement job go up in smoke.

Can one woman save the world, or will disbelief be her undoing?

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Monsters bleed into our world through an open wound in the fabric of reality, and we’ve lost our only means to draw out and destroy them.

But if others can travel to our world, why can’t we go to theirs?

To fight the Infected, the Guardians must take them on in circumstances of their own choosing. That tactic ended with the destruction of the Mana’thiandriel, enchanted artifacts used to gather the Infected, in a battle which not only convinced the world the problem was real, but also sealed the fate of humankind.

One of their crew believes he can trace the magic of the alien interplanetary travel, and return the Guardians to the origin of their one-way trip. “Return the Guardians, get more Mana’thiandriel, save the Earth… easy peasy.”

Can the ragtag gang overcome their pasts, navigate a web of deceit, and find a means to save the Earth?