A hard-boiled detective novella. Private eye, Tom Sharp, and his faithful AI assistant, Frank, investigate the death of an unlucky man hit by a bus. It looks like an accident, but the victim's elderly mother believes her son was cursed.

A hard-boiled detective novella. Private eye, Tom Sharp, and his faithful AI assistant, Frank, investigate the death of an unlucky man hit by a bus. It looks like an accident, but the victim's elderly mother believes her son was cursed.

It's Los Angeles, 2055, where life is cheap, the tech is glitchy, and magic is real. The kicker: Sharp is the only one in this world immune to magic. No one knows why, including him. But as he's often reminded by friend and foe alike, he's not immune to bullets. Welcome to the Peaceable Kingdom.