Black Dawn

Magic, mayhem, and moonshine. Gage came home to the Ozarks to mend fences with the friends he'd left behind. But when a solar storm reconnects Earth to the Fae Nexus, the world is engulfed in magical energy, altering the laws of nature… violently. Fuel, ammunition, and electronics explode, leaving the world in a dark apocalypse. As the flames die down, demons emerge through the Fae Nexus, swarming Gage's hometown and enslaving the survivors. To fight back, Gage and his reunited friends harness Fae powers, becoming the Wizard, Ranger, and Fighter they've always played in their favorite roleplaying game. With the help of a pair of moonshiners turned Alchemists and the ghost of a long-dead gunslinger, Gage and his friends have to level up fast to free their families and defend their home against the demonic horde. He may have walked away once, but this time the only thing Gage is leaving behind are his regrets and a pile of dead demons. Nathan Ameye grew up fishing, canoeing, hunting, and trekking through the Ozark Mountains. In his backpack, you could always find a bag of polyhedrons and a fantasy or science fiction novel with its tattered cover being desperately held together by yellowed bits of tape. Eventually, he headed for steeper terrain and spent years living in the Colorado Rockies where he took up rock climbing, fly fishing, and Jeeping. He has far too many hobbies to be really good at any of them, including photography, billiards, wood carving, guitar playing, blacksmithing, and martial arts. Nathan's video game addiction started with Atari consoles and progressed to text-based multiplayer games (MUDs) and then more modern MMORPGs. He eventually discovered a small but thriving genre of game-centered literature and fascinated by the interweaving of game elements into fiction, wrote his debut novel as a post-apocalyptic LitRPG.