

Weston Winters, son of Banvish-Sumic immigrants, has been fired from every apprenticeship he’s charmed his way into. If Maggie wins the hunt and kills the hala, her alchemist mother, gone for months, may finally return home to stay. Legend even has it that the hala’s alchemized carcass could be forged into the philosopher’s stone. Though the Katharist church condemns the hala as a demon, 17-year-old Margaret Welty has been taught by her Yu’adir father that it is a sacred creation of God.

Teams consisting of a marksman and an alchemist hunt the creature in pursuit of fame and fortune.

When the hala appears each autumn, New Albion’s Halfmoon Hunt soon follows. An aspiring alchemist and a talented sharpshooter team up to hunt an ancient beast.
