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If fortune really did favor the well-prepared, Eli Ledeman would be a good police officer. Instead, he suffers from a life-long, nearly preternatural streak of bad luck that keeps people and promotions far away. He doesn't mind. At least, not until tragedy chases him from his hometown and his only windfall, and his multiple attempts to fade away and fall in line with the NYPD are repeatedly foiled by a tall, doofy, unnervingly helpful officer with an evergreen grin. For so many reasons, not all of them rational, Eli does not like Tyler Kincaide. Tyler Kincaide, it turns out, doesn't like him either, but Eli didn't expect to find that out while staring down a terrifying multi-armed shadow monster in the abandoned construction project on West 111th. Where's the paperwork for that? Welcome to the Midnight Tour series, exploring a world of monsters and myths as they have made their homes on and underneath the gritty streets of New York in this surreal and spunky horror/fantasy magical Detective Noir yarn. "Tyler Kincaide: He-Witch!" is the first book in the Midnight Tour series, and part of the Shotguns and Sage project. Shotguns and Sage: a project featuring two interconnected and interwoven series of novels in a universe where monsters are real, some cops are witches and hunters kill the things that go bump in the night so you don’t have to. Though the characters and events of the novels are connected, they can be read together or separately, so you can decide which tone you prefer and how much of the plot you want to know. Midnight Tour Series What happens when a regular New York cop with a bad luck streak catches a fellow officer skipping out on tour … to exorcise a hellish fire creature from the girders of an abandoned warehouse? Instant bromance, of course! Ride along for the Midnight Tour, a series of mystery-horror-supernatural cases that follow the adventures of Tyler Kincaide (witch) and Eli Ledeman (assistant and confidante) in lushly updated detective noir fashion as they police the many beats of New York, casting, copping, connoitering and generally trying not to get themselves killed. If you enjoy a good comedy-of-errors and are bored with seeing selkies and succubi passed over in favor of the good ol’ VWW (vampire-werewolf-witch) trifecta, buckle in and don’t forget the take-out. Tyler and Eli are good cops and better bros, once the whole “magic is real” freak-out passes – and it always does. Road 23 Series Or, if you prefer your action a little fiercer and your plots a little darker, try the sister series, Road 23. (First book available in 2020.) This misfit group of hunters is charged with the same mission as their Yankee cop friends, but in the depths of an isolated Georgia swamp. It takes a little more violence and a lot less playing by the rules – especially when the things they hunt look uncomfortably like their own teammates. Adisa Nwosu may have come from a long, respected line of hunters, but her team certainly doesn’t look like the one she grew up with. Between James (a half-selkie with an unsettled past and some serious control problems), Conner (a shifter who left the pressures of his family to take down other creatures) and Danni (a sweet water witch who seems far too young for the life they lead), Adisa has gone far astray from the hunter traditions. And the rules. But this group of strays she's collected just might work.

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