Mantle and Key Paranormal Agency

Half-troll. Half-human. All badass. Maine doesn't like her father. It doesn't help that he's a troll. As in a literal, lives-under-a-bridge troll. When her father is killed, Maine returns home to settle his estate and learns that he wasn't any ordinary troll, but the town hero. Seems trolls can be superheroes, too. When Maine inherited her father's Mantle, she got more than a demonically possessed magical cape that reveals one's weakness. She also inherited several busloads of mythical adversaries. Thanks, Dad! Now that she's inherited the Mantle, her father's assassins are coming after her. With powerful supernatural beings gunning for her and the Mantle, Maine doesn't have much time to learn about her magical inheritance. She has a choice to make. Give up her father's Mantle and return to her mundane, human life, or stay and fight. With the help of a chihuahua-sized dire wolf, a very sexy wizard, and her father's Mantle, Maine enters a maze of supernatural mysteries. Will Maine uncover the truth of who her father was and why he was killed? Can she avoid her quest for that truth risking the lives of her and her friends along the way?

Maine's troubles are only just beginning. The Mantle is still catnip to assassins. News of her victory is out and another liquidator of the living is after her. That would be enough trouble, if her ex wasn't also in town, proclaiming his undying love for her. Where was this adoration when they were dating? To make things worse, her pint-sized best friend has visitors. Noff's pack is being terrorized by a ruthless hunter with supernatural strength, speed, and senses. Running with the wolves is tough . . . especially when you're the size of a chihuahua. This is Noff's chance to show he's more than a cat-sized dire wolf. If he saves the pack, maybe they'll finally accept him. Noff is determined to prove his worth by taking on the super-hunter, which means that Maine needs to take on the super-hunter. Who knew being a half-troll, half-human detective would suck so hard? Maine's screwed. Will Maine be able to outwit her assassin, take down the super-hunter and turn away her love-sick ex-boyfriend? Dire-wolves and trolls and exes, oh my.

Can Death die? Someone is trying to kill Death. As in the Grim Reaper, San La Muerte, King Yama, Maveth, Death. Yeah, that guy. But if Death dies, who takes his place? That is the eternal question. Maine is hoping to avoid finding out the answer. She and Noff have taken on the harbinger of souls as their client, vowing to protect him as he competes in The Conjuring-the high stakes card game played by supernatural beings. Death is the reigning champion, and he has everything to lose. Participating in the event requires him to be vulnerable, and someone is gunning for him. Who is anyone's guess. But when you are the literal end to everyone and everything, you tend to rack up the enemies. Can Maine and Noff save Death from dying? Death, mythical creatures, and card-games . . . It's going to be one hell of a con.

They say everyone gets fifteen minutes of fame in Hollywood. Too bad that Sage's fifteen minutes just ended in him being accused of murder. Sage's dream is to be a top chef. So when he gets to be a finalist on one of Hollywood's biggest cooking shows, he's over the moon. Until, that is, the top chef is poisoned. All signs point to Sage as the perpetrator. Maine and Noff have to trade magic for the fake glitz and glamor of Hollywood to try and clear Sage's name. To make matters worse, Maine is experiencing a string of bad luck that is literally flooding her life with grief. All Maine wanted was a vacation . . . Time is running out. If Maine doesn't find evidence to clear Sage's name, it's a maximum-security prison for him . . . YUCK! In the Human world . . . Double-Yuck! But Maine has never solved a crime in the mundane world before, let alone Hollywood. The only thing Maine knows for sure is that she'd swap the shark-infested waters of Hollywood's social scene for Rainwater's world of demons, dragons, and direwolves in a heartbeat!

Maine cast a good luck spell to save the love of her life from prison, but at what cost? Magic is controlled by chaos, and with every instance of magically-enhanced good luck comes some corresponding bad luck. Sage is free, but so is the Demon who created the Mantle. The Demon has escaped from his celestial prison. He is gathering his minions and is gunning for the Mantle. But the Mantle isn't the only weapon the Demon wants. There are other, more powerful items around . . . and none more so than Father Time's Clock. A device that gives its wielder the ability to control the rivers of time? Maine is royally screwed. Maine, the Noff, and their allies have to stop the Demon from ushering in the apocalypse. But time is literally against her. Will Maine have what it takes to stop a Demon so powerful that even the forces of Heaven couldn't contain him forever? Or is the beginning of the end for the legacy passed down from her father to her?

Win the war, or watch everyone she cares for die. When Maine took on her father's mantle, her intention was to protect a single village. No one said anything about every living being on the planet. The Demon has built a mythical stronghold in Rainwater and is gunning for the Nexus-the center of all magic on Earth. He'll have to go through Maine and her celestial army first, but he wouldn't have it any other way. Facing insurmountable odds, Maine has gathered every last mythical creature willing to stop the Demons. She knows that it's not enough. Not even close. Can Maine stop an evil so powerful that even the Devil bows to it? Or will all life on Earth end here?

Defeating the world-ending demon was only the beginning. Now Maine must wrestle with the very fabric of reality. Maine defeated the Corrupter, saved the world, and is dating the man of her dreams. Things should be smooth sailing from now on. She deserves a boring, normal-ish life, doesn't she? Fate has other ideas in mind. The defeat of the Corrupter left a power void that needs to be filled. A strange mist surrounds Rainwater. Most dismiss it as a weird weather phenomenon, but creatures who enter the mists don't leave the same. Maine has no choice but to figure out why the returned are enhanced as she fights powered-up mythical creatures and a Baba Yaga cabin with giant T-Rex legs. As if that wasn't enough, Maine discovers that the mist has been sent by Chaos himself. What's that phrase about the hardest battles being reserved for the strongest warriors? Maine, Noff, Sage, and their allies must stand up and fight once again. The danger posed by Chaos isn't a threat to bring about the end of days . . . It's threatening the end of all existence.

Maine is in prison for a crime she didn't commit. For once, the prisoner's cry of "innocence" is true. She didn't do anything wrong. Being there of her own free will doesn't change the fact that she's locked up in a mythical prison, surrounded by the worst of the worst. Disguised as an oni demon, Maine hopes to find the key to Chaos's realm. That key could be Earth's last chance of survival, and it's being held by the creature who killed her father. Turns out mythical prisons are just as gang-ridden as human ones. Except here, people don't use a shiv. They use a fireball. Can Maine survive prison politics and terrible food long enough to find the key? Or will she be metaphorically stabbed in the back in the form of a disintegration spell?

Death isn't final. But it should be . . . When Maine took up her troll father's mantle, she thought he was dead. She was right. Sort of . . . Finding out that an aspect of him went to another world comes as a surprise. Maine has to get over her shock because he's been fighting a secret war for decades and he needs her help. Now she must traverse the fabric of reality and join her father's fight to stop the forces of Chaos before they destroy not only her world, but all known worlds. Can Maine, Sage, and the Noff come out on top in the fight for all living beings everywhere?