The Guests of Crooked Neck

A grieving holdout. A fearsome hivemind. A SUPREMELY PUNCHABLE hustler. One small town with nowhere to hide.

Crooked Neck is packed with out-of-towners seeking an audience with the galaxy’s two most notorious war criminals.

Their assigned host is hiding behind his shutters.

After a sudden tragedy, Keonaona Hoʻokano wants to be left alone. So when the Gorgon arrives at his darkened estate in the middle of a storm, Keonaona watches from the shadows—and leaves them standing in the rain.

Now the exhausted Gorgon needs somewhere to sleep. But Crooked Neck’s only motel is already packed with people waiting to see them.

Mercurio Maximino Macoya smells opportunity. He came to Crooked Neck for the ultimate exclusive: an interview with the Gorgon that could finally make his struggling vid channel matter.

Too bad the jerks won’t cooperate.

No interview until Mercurio finds them somewhere to stay. And wouldn’t you know it? They already have an assigned host.

Now Keonaona’s got two infamous war criminals without a bed, Mercurio closing in with his cameras, and an entire town that knows him too well to mind its own business.

And Keonaona is already near his breaking point.

THE GUESTS OF CROOKED NECK is a stormy science-fantasy dramedy filled with humor, genuine heart, and people who are never quite what they first appear.

Crooked Neck is waiting. Come on in.

This standalone novel set in the Worlds of Everlush universe takes place soon after the events of STEEL CITY, VEILED KINGDOM.

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