Master of the Poisoned Hand (Savage Chronicles Book 4)

Steven Anthony Savage has faced killers, secret tournaments, and martial artists whose skills seemed almost impossible.

But he has never faced a man like Chung Li Po.

Back at Bay City University, Steve is trying to balance classes, friends, Jennifer, and the increasingly complicated life that comes with being one of the most dangerous young martial artists in Bay City. But beneath the ordinary rhythm of campus life, something darker is taking shape.

Chung Li Po is a master of the poisoned hand—and he is building students in his own image.

His fighters don’t simply train to win. They train to cripple. To kill. And when Chung’s ambitions reach into Steve’s circle of friends, the conflict becomes brutally personal.

Steve has spent years learning that martial arts are about more than power. Skill must be earned. Strength requires discipline. And the ability to destroy another person means nothing without the judgment to know when not to.

Chung Li Po believes otherwise.

As old rivalries return, new fighters emerge, and violence closes in around Bay City, Steve must confront an opponent whose greatest weapon may not be poison, technique, or even fear—but his willingness to cross lines Steve refuses to cross.

To defeat the Poisoned Hand, Steve Savage may have to prove that mercy isn’t weakness.

The fourth novel in The Savage Chronicles, Master of the Poisoned Hand is a martial-arts thriller filled with brutal fights, competing styles, friendship, romance, dark humor, and the continuing evolution of Steve Savage from gifted fighter into something far more dangerous: a martial artist who understands why he fights.