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Alexandra Ascher isn't your usual private investigator. She lives on the fringes, making a living by doing odd jobs and aiding clients with problems that would raise eyebrows. Despite the unusual nature of her clients, as far as she knows she is simply a normal human. On the eve of her 21st birthday, her apartment is completely trashed. Tracking down the perpetrators leads her into a growing web of mysteries. Turning 21 adds a fresh wave of complications and a reveals a dark heritage that she would never have seen coming.

Alex Ascher is back! There's a new threat roaming the streets of Los Angeles. Before now, ghouls have stayed out of America, but now, one is hunting Alex. Having a homicidal, unkillable djinn after you is bad enough, but nothing in Alex's life is ever so simple. Satanists, a possessed computer programmer, and haunted junk in the garage are just the beginning. Alex is not alone, though. When dealing with the supernatural, you take whatever allies you can find, no matter how unlikely.

Wild fire threatens Los Angeles again, but this time there is something unusual about the fires. Alex Ascher finds herself caught up in a power struggle between factions she barely knew existed. Danger lurks around every corner and at every tick of the clock. And then her mother shows up with an ominous warning that Alex has no choice but to ignore. Crossing an ancient evil like Mahlat is never a winning bet, but the alternative could be worse than death.

The corruption of the Incantors may have been cleansed in the southern deserts, but Andrew’s work is just beginning. The city of Ardhal has fallen under the growing shadow of the Incantors, and it is only a matter of time before that ancient scourge spreads throughout Salia. Andrew has his hands full already, but now, the surviving dragons of the far north have learned of his existence, and not all of them are willing to return to the alliances of old.

On Venus, the Council of Matriarch rules. The society of immortals govern themselves with the iron guidelines of the Manifesto, but the rest of the population is not so controlled....An accident sparks a chain of events that drag the orderly, structured life of the matriarchs into the grimy desperation of the common citizens. In this riveting sequel to The December Protocol, nobody is safe. The promise of a life everlasting means nothing if you can't survive until tomorrow.

Andrew Condign has gone to the deserts of Nas Shahr in the hopes of heading off a war. The dragons of the deep desert are attacking towns and villages, stirred to violence by some unknown agent.

Rune Scale is set in a world ruled by dragons. Humans survive by their wits and through the use of alchemy, a mysterious magic possessively controlled by the secretive Alchemists Guild. Andrew Condign is an ordinary man with dreams of a better world, where humans can live without the constant fear of dragon attacks. In pursuit of this goal, Andrew finds himself in a race against time as he scrounges for scraps of knowledge and sets out on the most dangerous quest imaginable.

Throughout the entirety of history, humanity has fought against sickness, old age, frailty, even death itself hoping for eternal life. Hanson imagines life beyond those legends and stories - a solar system where humanity has discovered the secret to immortal life, at an extreme cost. The December Protocol rockets the listener into the late 24th century and raises thrilling questions about how far mankind would go to preserve the most precious gift we've ever received: immortality....