*Please note this was previously published in a Young Adult boxed set with under the combined pen name JD Chapman and has since been changed to a new adult M M paranormal romance under the authors separate pen names. The story itself has small changes to reflect the change in both characters age.Nothing is going to plan for Callen. First he moves across the country to a small town with fewer than three thousand inhabitants, and next his mom is brutally murdered on his twenty-first birthday.Now the hunt for her killer begins.In no time at all Callen discovers a secret world of mythological creatures and his newest friend Kieran just so happens to be one of them. Little does Callen know, he's not human either. When their hunt uncovers mysterious origins and terrifying creatures, both men have a choice to make.Do they stop their hunt and go into hiding, or do they take a stand fight back?When The Kingdom Cracks is the first book in a M M dark paranormal romance trilogy.