When the stakes are at their highest, the Guild sends Hugo Clouser to get the job done...Hugo Clouser is known for his ability to find anything.
But when a piece of Guild property goes missing, he's going to need more than luck to track it down.
She wants to level up her humdrum existence. But her next quest could spell life or death.Jen Jacobs's nights are spent traversing a strange city finding hidden objects, slaying dragons, and tangling with a host of fellow adventurers. And her days are spent counting down the seconds until she can return to the grind and continue racking up tokens and leveling up.
Except Jen isn't playing a video game.
It's all real and happening right in New York City.
After a particularly harrowing quest pairs her up with Beatrice Taylor, a no-nonsense and ambitious mentor, Jen hopes she’s on the path to becoming a big-time player. But as she dives deeper into the game’s hidden agenda, she realizes Beatrice has her sights set on the Guild, the centuries-old organization that runs the Questing game. And the quests Jen loves are about to put both of them in grave danger.
Will Jen survive the game before powerful forces cut her real life short?
Guild of Tokens is a thrilling new twist on conventional urban fantasy. If you like determined heroines, gritty cityscapes, and vampire-free adventures, then you’ll love Jon Auerbach’s rollercoaster tale.
The quests are real, the rewards are real, and the dangers are unimaginableBeatrice Stallard is your run-of-the-mill post-college 20-something trying to make her way in New York City.
That is, until she discovers the Quest Board one night and everything changes.
The rules of the Board are simple:
Complete a Quest, get a token.
The harder the Quest, the more tokens you earn.
Get enough tokens, and you level up.
Except the Quests aren't in a video game. They're real.
And magic? Well, that's real too.
Discover how Beatrice became the driven alchemist Jen meets in Guild of Tokens in this trio of tales spanning the alleyways of the city that never sleeps to the ancient castles of Corfu.
When the Quests are real, the consequences can be deadly.
It's been six years since Beatrice Taylor discovered the Quest Board and her life changed forever.
The rules of the Board are simple:
Complete a Quest, get a token.
The harder the Quest, the more tokens you earn.
Get enough tokens, and you level up.
Except the Quest Board isn't in a video game. It's real.
Beatrice has worked her way up from the bottom and now she's ready to hit the big time and tackle some epic Raids.
Except there's just one problem: the Guild, a shadowy group that has its tentacles in every part of the Questing world in New York City, and it doesn't appreciate Beatrice's accolades and meteoric rise.
But Beatrice isn't afraid.
In fact, she's been preparing for this day ever since she first made contact with the Guild.
She just didn't expect that it would send an enforcer today of all days: her first wedding anniversary.
