Pawn's Gambit

In "Pawn’s Gambit," Steven Bauer's life takes a dramatic turn when he becomes a player in a perilous game of chess, where humans serve as pieces and the stakes are survival. As the White Pawn, he must assemble a unique team—including a troubled teenager, a dying woman, a haunted priest, and a despondent drunk—to face the formidable Black Queen and her already assembled forces. This engaging contemporary fantasy marks the beginning of The Pawn Strategem series by Darin Kennedy.