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BOOK 9 OF NOCTIS INVESTIGATIONS
A Lloyd Apart
Welcome to Theia.
Burnt out. Powerless. No more shadows to hide in. For the first time, Lloyd Gibson is just a man, stranded in an unknown world that wants to kill him at every turn.
He crossed countless lines to get here, hellbent on rescuing Miri, with only a single lead to go on. What he finds instead is a town built on a secret, an obedience no one questions, and a terrifying threat moving freely in the open.
All he wanted was a horse and a map, but when the lives of those who took him in are endangered, sticking around stops being a choice—it’s just the right thing to do. Even if it means he doesn’t walk out of it alive.
WHERE IT BEGAN:
BOOK 1 OF NOCTIS INVESTIGATIONS
IN Like LLOYD
Thief. Private Investigator. Shadow Walker.
Lloyd Gibson used to steal everything under the sun. But after his last job went sideways, he traded high-stakes theft for an abandoned warehouse and the company of a pet rat. Now, he puts his talents to use as an unlicensed private investigator, surviving on the scraps legitimate agencies won’t touch. The pay is terrible, the clients are lunatics, and the boredom is eating him alive.
Then Mireya Delgado calls with a genuine case: a series of unexplained arsons that don’t play by normal rules. What begins as routine legwork pulls Lloyd into an eighty-year-old mystery, pitting him against a firestarter with the power of a literal supervillain.
But as dangerous as the arsonist is, Lloyd has a superpower of his own: the ability to enter the Noctis, a parallel shadow dimension beneath the city where light—and flames—cannot follow.
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ABOUT MATT ARMSTRONG
Matt Armstrong grew up in Canada, in his hometown of Calgary, and now lives in Sydney, Australia. As an avid fantasy fan, he began writing as a teenager but never truly stuck with it until he was 39 years old. Then, he sat down and wrote his first genuine novel, In Like Lloyd, in 8 days.
