Starting Over: Bitter Luck

When Alaric is given the order to leave the country, he returns to the city of his youth, Verge, where he left everyone behind some four years ago. Set in a fantastical world on the cusp of modernization, old prejudges die hard even when out-paced by the technological advances made possible by Glow, a newly refined magic.What follows are the first steps on the road to discovering he’s not the only one keeping secrets. Reunited with his childhood best friend, Dostapher ＂Toast＂ Clay, he joins the animal preservation effort at Bedlam Labs as head of security, a pet project of the megacorporation Mage Industries. There’s more at stake than his job while he finds old relationships renewed, his past haunting him, and every bit of training and resolve put to the test every time he plays hooky.Remaining faithful to allies proves difficult when Alaric can’t tell who they are.Blending realistic fantasy with fantastic science, Starting Over: Bitter Luck is the first in a series focusing on balancing work and personal life while trying to save the world through conservation efforts and stopping great evil.

Even though Jay has been making up stories for as long as he’s needed to lie to his parents, this is his first published novel. When he found out The Outsiders was written by a 17 year-old, he did his best to beat that at 14. After failing, and plenty other career and social mistakes, he took to writing to an audience by forming RPG groups and writing fanfiction for Yu-Gi-Oh and DC comics. Always one to debate canon, he finally decided it was time to form his own. He currently resides in his adopted hometown of Jackson, Michigan with his brother/best friend and is in a custody battle over a cat with his other brother.