Publisher's Synopsis
In war, men don't only fight the enemy.
Sergeant Knox leads the Head Knockers, a unit of scout-saboteurs in the war against the Dread Duke and his armies. They are the favorite squad among Captain Brighton's Stormwalkers, until an ambush kills the Captain, half the company, and Knox's best men. Now the new Captain has new orders. He's sending the Head Knockers to investigate the possible source of the attack. The town they find appears empty, but something waits for them in the darkness. And they'll need both heart and steel to defeat it. This stand alone, sword and soldiery novella is also a prequel to the fantasy novel Tarnish.
