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Alive Pays Better
Finding a man was one thing. Bringing him back breathing was another.
Western
Vannic · Yur
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First Edition · 2026
ISBN 9798982013323
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MEET THE STRANGER
Meet Gwyon Djem-Sun, the Man-Hunter at the center of Hunter’s Eye.
world
ENTER YUR
Rails, hard country, broken industry, strange old technology, and civilizations that survived by getting harder.
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WHAT IS A MAN-HUNTER?
Discover the Houses, the Long Track, the Hunter’s Eye, and the profession built to keep hunting when ordinary jurisdiction ends.
Making Of
BEHIND ALIVE PAYS BETTER
Go inside the Western, mystery, worldbuilding, and creative decisions behind the first Hunter’s Eye novel.
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Asterrow Books creates fiction with a world of its own. From historical drama to speculative worlds, each release is shaped around distinctive characters, places, and ideas, with an identity that carries through the book, its design, and everything surrounding it.
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Cover Reveal: Hunter’s Eye: Alive Pays Better
The cover for Hunter’s Eye: Alive Pays Better went through several versions before I realized the answer had been in front of me the whole time. I wanted…
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R. L. Alexander
R. L. Alexander writes character-led fiction shaped by family, legacy, power, identity, history, and the choices that change people and the worlds around them.
His work moves across historical, speculative, fantastical, and genre-blending settings, but the approach remains the same: build the world with purpose, let the characters carry the weight, and keep the story at the center.
About Asterrow
Built around the story.
Asterrow Books is the independent publishing home of R. L. Alexander, built around a simple principle: the story comes first.
The imprint publishes immersive fiction with a strong sense of identity, place, and purpose—books designed to stand on their own while opening into larger histories, characters, ideas, and worlds.
Each title is given room to become its own experience, from the story itself to the material surrounding it: the places, research, maps, timelines, influences, and creative choices that helped shape the work.
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