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Hell of a Band
2025
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4.77
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Rock and Roll Will Never Die - But It Can Kill When Alastair Stone’s casual professor band is invited to open a show for an up-and-coming rock act on the cusp of national success, he can’t deny it’s a dream come true. That is, until the headliner’s lead guitarist gives a phenomenal performance on a Stratocaster practically bursting with arcane power—and then turns up dead in his dressing room with magical music notes drawn on his forehead and the guitar nowhere to be found. Spurred to investigate the murder, Stone begins to uncover the Strat’s bizarre history, tracing it back to a shocking tragedy over fifty years ago. But that’s not the end—not even close. The guitar is far older than Stone ever suspected, and as he faces deadly danger searching for its origin, he encounters the entity behind it—a chaotic being with vast power, whose motives are impossible to fully comprehend. To end the guitar’s trail of murder and mayhem, Stone and his friends will first need to find it—but that’s the easy part. The hard part is finding the strength to do what needs to be done to destroy it. Prepare to lose yourself in this #1 Amazon-bestselling urban fantasy series readers are calling “Unstoppable” and “A major winner!” Once you enter the world of Alastair Stone, you won’t want to leave.

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Author

R.L. King
R.L. King
Author · 56 books

R. L. King is the author of the Amazon-bestselling urban fantasy series The Alastair Stone Chronicles. When not doing her best to make life difficult for her characters, she works as a software technical writer for a large Silicon Valley database company. She also freelances for Catalyst Game Labs, publisher of the popular roleplaying game Shadowrun, where she's contributed fiction and game material to numerous sourcebooks and one full-length adventure, "On the Run," which was included as part of the 2012 Origins-Award-winning "Runners' Toolkit." Her first novel in the Shadowrun universe, "Borrowed Time," was published in Spring 2015. She's working on her second Shadowrun novel, "Veiled Extraction," which will be released in late 2016 or early 2017. When not writing or working, she enjoys hanging out with her very understanding spouse and her small herd of cats, and watching way too much Doctor Who.

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