Monster Hunter Guardian

When Owen Pitt and the rest of the Monster Hunter International crew are called away to mount a months-long rescue mission in a monster-infested nightmare dimension, Julie Shackleford, Owen's wife and descendant of MHI founder Bubba Shackelford, is left behind. Her task is to hold down the fort and take care of her new baby son Ray.

Julie is devoted to the little guy, but the slow pace of office work and maternity leave are starting to get to her. Then a routine field call brings her face to face with an unspeakable evil calling itself Brother Death.

Julie is the Guardian of a powerful ancient artifact known as the Kamaresh Yar, and Brother Death wants it. In the wrong hands, it could destroy reality as we know it. Julie would die before giving it up.

Then Ray goes missing, taken by Brother Death. The price for his safe return is the Kamaresh Yar. With no other choice, Julie agrees to the demands, but when you are dealing with an ancient evil, the devil is in the details. To reclaim her son, she will have to fight her way through necromantic death cults, child-stealing monsters and worse, before Brother Death can unleash the artifact.

Monster Hunter Guardian is the seventh book in the Monster Hunter International series by Larry Correia and Sarah A. Hoyt.