A Twin Cities fugitive thriller by JD Eells
The HuntDuty of the Badge
A deadly fugitive.
A kidnapped girl.
A city on edge.
A task force is running out of time.
Available in Kindle and paperback
- Setting
- Minneapolis–St. Paul
- Target
- Micah Sayer
- Clock
- Eleven days
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Beyond The Hunt
Other worlds wait in the dark.
Inherited secrets, surveillance states, cursed crowns, and a town that remembers. Explore the rest of JD Eells’s fiction.
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About the author
Stories from the shadowed edge.
JD Eells writes grounded crime thrillers, dark mysteries, cyberpunk, dark fantasy, and horror. Across every world, ordinary people face systems built to control them—and choices that refuse to stay buried.
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