Gamekeeper: The System’s Huntsman 5
Gamekeeper: The System’s Huntsman, Book 5 Is Out Now!
The hunt has changed.
The fifth book in Gamekeeper: The System’s Huntsman, the Progression Fantasy Survival series by Nikolai Skiba, is now available!
Maxim has come a long way from the sickly seventeen-year-old who woke up in a strange world with the crimson marks of a Huntsman on his hands. He learned to survive its deadly forests, mastered the Beast Code, assembled a formidable pack, confronted the enemies threatening his family, and earned land and Ranger status of his own.
But the days when survival meant simply knowing how to read tracks, find shelter, and outsmart the creature hunting you are over.
The sandbox days are over. Welcome to a real war.
Maxim finally has something worth building. His farm is taking shape, his territory is his own, and Lina and Damir have left the Royal Guild to become his apprentices. For the first time, Max is responsible not only for himself and his animals, but for the people who have chosen to follow him.
And leadership comes with a price.
His valley is gradually becoming a fortified camp, while his apprentices discover that real training has little in common with the comfortable lessons of the Guild. Max must learn what it truly means to be an Alpha: the one responsible for every life within his territory.
His animal companions are changing as well. Athena, Handsome, Puppetmaster, Dollface, and the Fire Fox Kartz are no longer simply powerful creatures fighting alongside their Huntsman. They are learning to act as a coordinated tactical unit—a pack capable of becoming a terrifyingly efficient weapon. New abilities emerge, hidden potential begins to reveal itself, and some powers carry a price no one should have to pay.
They will need every advantage they can get.
The secret war surrounding the Seven Druids is no longer so secret. Their hunt for the elementals is part of something far greater: preparations for a catastrophe that could engulf the entire world. The mysteries of the Tides and the Rift grow darker, while the Crown continues trying to use Maxim as a pawn in its own game.
Even his unfinished farm has already attracted spies and traitors.
Unfortunately for everyone attempting to control him, Max has never been particularly good at playing the obedient victim.
Book 5 takes the series into darker territory as the lines between allies and enemies become increasingly difficult to distinguish. Old foes return seeking vengeance. New allies may prove even more frightening. The Darkness within Maxim’s Stream Core waits for an opportunity to take advantage of his weakness, while the choices necessary to protect his pack become harsher and increasingly unforgiving.
And somewhere beyond the familiar rules of this conflict waits another force.
The mysterious Forest Reapers finally step onto the stage—an organization connected to the protection of the Rift and locked in an escalating struggle with the Seven Druids. To find them, Maxim will have to venture where even kings hesitate to go and seek out the enigmatic Forest Reaper himself.
Because being another piece on someone else’s board is no longer enough.
If Maxim wants his family, his pack, and everything he has built to survive what is coming, he will have to become a power in his own right.
A third power in the war.
Packed with battles, tactical teamwork, evolving beasts, dangerous secrets, betrayals, and some of the toughest decisions Maxim has faced yet, Gamekeeper: The System’s Huntsman, Book 5 marks a major turning point for the entire series.
The forest taught Maxim how to survive.
Now it’s time to find out whether it taught him how to wage war.
Gamekeeper: The System’s Huntsman, Book 5 by Nikolai Skiba is out now.
All books in the series are available here!