Russell Zimmerman

BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT... This quartet of novellas travels around the Sixth World to places where the boundaries between good and evil, light and darkness can be...blurry, at best. In the mysterious Caliphate of Arabia, A shaman makes the ultimate deal with one of the deadliest-and most treacherous-spirit totems to exact justice for her murdered family. Everyone's favorite down on his luck PI Jimmy Kincaid takes on a case of SURGE kids getting burned alive by someone-or something-with a deep hate for genemods. T'ing the troll shaman takes his posse down to Cuba to mix business with pleasure, and uncovers a deadly plot to wipe out most of the Caribbean if the shadowrunners don't step in. And a shadowrunning team heads to the Sioux Nation to investigate several mysterious disappearances...and stumbles upon a secret cabal dedicated to preventing the destruction of much of the Nation...and a showdown with a megacorp that looking to seize that power for itself. Four stories of intrigue and danger from the gray world of Shadowrun. Check your ammo, prep your spells, and get ready to cross more than one kind of border in these pages...

NO PLACE FOR A HERO...Jimmy Kincaid, burned-out mage, P. I., and the closest thing Puyallup's got to a hero, has a lot on his plate these days. Simmering gang wars, feuding mobsters, missing runaways, magical power only as reliable as his stubborn sorcerous patron, and-well above his usual pay grade-an encrypted data file that's already cost him friends, but that he can't even access. When the always-dangerous troubles of the Seattle sprawl deepen into a bloody conspiracy with ties to neighboring nations and inhuman powers, he knows he's on the job of his life. Facing the longest of long odds, Kincaid's all too aware that the house always wins.Luckily, he's not alone. A man like Jimmy can't walk these shadowed streets without making enemies, but he's made allies, too. With the help of his bounty-hunting best friends, an up-and-coming shadowrunner team, a former Lone Star detective who's short in stature but big in style, and his loyal, albeit flighty ally spirit, Jimmy's stacked the deck in his favor. Maybe he's got a shot after all. Maybe he can make it all work. Maybe he can find the right balance, share the right truths, and make something good out of a whole lot of bad.Of course, the problem with a house of cards is it just takes one good hit to bring it all tumbling down...