The HousesBy howlingwolf & JaredLee
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Last published Mon, Jan 5, 2015
Two years after the defeat and execution of Mad King Hampton and his family, the war against evil returns as Octavia, the only surviving member of the royal family and rightful heir to the throne begins to raise her army of beasts . With her armies beginning to grow ,the new high king along with the holy church decides that the only way to save the kingdoms of Lerona they must band Aviva Durant and Poet Corrigan, two master hunters and both powerful heads of their own houses made famous for their technique of hunting dangerous beast. The only thing wrong about this is that these houses were also made famous for warring against each other, and Poet is out for justice against his father's killer, A knight of Durant that murdered his mother and father in cold blood.
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