Blade's Edge
When Matt Archer was fourteen, he discovered monsters are real. As if that wasn’t enough to go on for a few decades, Matt also found out that he’d been chosen to hunt those monsters—with a sentient, supernatural knife. Now fifteen, Matt has spent the last year working with a clandestine military unit, trying to rid the world of monsters, demons and other vicious creatures, all while keeping it a secret from nearly everyone he knows back home in Billings.
Including his mom.
Add in a new girlfriend, family secrets, sibling drama and enough homework to sink an aircraft carrier, and Matt’s life has become more complicated than he ever imagined. Worse, the knife has developed some very definite opinions about Matt’s personal life and it interferes in his business whenever it wants. More and more, Matt’s coming to realize that sharing brain-space with a spirit kind of sucks.
When stories of decimated towns and hordes of zombies start pouring into the Pentagon from Afghanistan, Matt knows he’ll be called up soon. Between the new mission and the knife’s increasing control over his mind, Matt wonders if he’ll survive long enough to take his driver’s exam.
About the Matt Archer Series
Books in series order
- 1.Monster Hunter(2012)
- 2.Blade's Edge(2012)
- 3.Legend(2013)
- 4.Bloodlines(2014)
- 5.Redemption(2014)
- +Monster Summer(2012)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
Fourteen-year-old Matt Archer thinks he lives a pretty mundane and ordinary life—ordinary, that is, until a regular weekend camping trip with his uncle includes an encounter with a terrifying creature. Now life becomes extraordinary, because monsters are real...and living in his backyard.
Matt is catapulted into living a double life, quickly becoming part of a world he didn’t previously know existed. He must wield a strange and powerful knife, work with a covert military unit dedicated to eliminating these walking nightmares, and face a prophecy about a looming dark war. Life will never be ordinary again.

