He was supposed to bring back boys for the Sultan Instead, he found something else waiting in the dark.
You know, I’ve always been drawn to stories where the odds are hopeless.
Where you look at the hero and think, how the hell is he still standing?
That’s what Blood Tax is about.
In the wake of the Battle of Varna, a cowardly Janissary named Tahsin is sent into the ruins of Serbia to collect the Sultan’s due: the blood tax.
But when he arrives, the villages are empty.
The boys are gone.
And the forest smells wrong.
He tells himself it’s bandits….or Wallachians.
He’s half-right.
This is a war that can’t be fought only with steel, reason, and powder. Learning curves are STEEP, habibi.
Blood Tax is the first major arc in Brotherhood of the Wolf, a dark fantasy series about flawed men who take it upon themselves to fight the horrors that “science” can’t touch.
The coward. The killer. The scholar. The zealot.
Each with his own sins to burn through.
If you like your fantasy grim, grounded, and full of that “how the hell do they survive this?” tension, methinks this is for you.
Check it out: https://talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/