Author of The Shadows Saga
David Hasty
Dark, character-driven YA vigilante thrillers for readers of Batman: Year One, Daredevil, and Nightwing.
A David Hasty book feels like the ten seconds after the mask goes on and the ten years it takes to live with what happened next. His debut series follows Evan Drake, a teenager forged into a vigilante by a mentor who isn't what he seems: the kind of story that has readers of Batman: Year One, Daredevil, and Nightwing calling it a hauntingly human take on heroism, sacrifice, and the cost of wearing the mask.
The world
Crescent City belongs to Evan Drake.
Every book in The Shadows Saga follows the same protagonist through the same city, a place where the line between hero and weapon gets thinner with every book.
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The Shadows Saga · Book 1
Shadows of Justice
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Shadows of Justice
“There's a fine line between saving lives and losing your own in the process.”
Eighteen-year-old Evan Drake has always lived in two worlds. By day, he's a struggling student trying to keep up with grades, track practice, and a family still healing from loss. By night, he becomes Shadow: the masked apprentice of Vanguard, Crescent City's legendary vigilante.
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The Shadows Saga · Book 2
Shattered Masks
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Shattered Masks
“In Crescent City, every hero wears a mask. Some wear it to protect the innocent. Others wear it to hide the truth.”
Seventeen-year-old Evan Drake was never meant to become a symbol. He was just a teenager trying to survive school, family pressure, and the ordinary fractures of growing up, until one violent night changed everything. After saving his sister from danger, Evan is discovered by Vanguard, the city's celebrated protector, and trained to become Shadow: a masked vigilante moving through the darkness to fight the criminal Syndicate tightening its grip on Crescent City.
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“There’s a fine line between saving lives and losing your own in the process.”
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About the author
A teacher who writes about the cost of being someone's weapon.
David Hasty is the author of The Shadows Saga. A high school science teacher for over 15 years, he lives by the belief that curiosity, empathy, and a quiet sense of a larger design shape every story worth telling.
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