u/Nephanor

Hey folks. I really hate self promotion, but I know I have to, so here I go.

I am writing a modern urban fantasy series called The Shadow Ledger. It's an alternate reality Earth to our own. Much of history and the world developed the same but with some changes:

• Magic exists, and at it's current state, it can be replicated with technology. Things like telekinetic umbrellas to keep you dry, to laptops to cast spells. It isn't powerful, but it very much a part of every day life. There is even a branch of the FBI specifically to handle crimes with magic
• Many races from traditional fantasy media co-exist with humans. There is no genetic compatibility between different species, so you won't see half elves or half orcs.

I am writing this with a strong pulp style and noir theme. At the moment, I have two books out, but I have a total of 15 planned for the first major story arc. Here are the blurbs for the first two books.

Burnt Aether
https://kdpbook.link/for/1069594709

In a city where the neon lights bleed into shadowed alleys and the rain never quite washes the streets clean, Agent Krysta Jameson of the Magical Crimes Investigation Bureau walks the line between law and something far stranger. Spells replace bullets. Secrets rot faster than bodies. And every case leaves its mark.

Her job is simple on paper: find justice when crime crosses into the arcane—when curses hit harder than guns, and when hexes leave scorch marks instead of fingerprints. But paper lies. With her partner in the city’s police force, Jax Argos, she tries to bring the law into the shadows of society. Every day drags Krysta deeper into a city that’s coming apart at the seams, where magic is currency, power is addiction, and the wrong name whispered in the dark can be your end.

There are forces older than laws and colder than justice moving in the city’s underbelly, and Krysta’s right in their path. In a world where truth is just a pen stroke away from deceit, the only thing that matters is how long you can keep your integrity intact.

When magic stops making sense, Krysta and Jax are called in—armed with grit, wit, and just enough arcane firepower to stay alive. But in this town, every answer births two more questions, and the truth is never just dangerous…it’s deadly.

Burnt Aether sets the opening balance of The Shadow Ledger, a new modern fantasy series set on an alternate Earth where magic is technology, crime has gone arcane, and nothing clean stays that way for long.

She Walks Between
http://kdpbook.link/for/1069594725

In a city where magic hums beneath the surface like faulty wiring, Krysta Jameson thought she’d seen the worst of it—curses, blood rituals, things that haunted your dreams but left marks you could catalog and contain.

She was wrong.

When a new case defies not just logic, but reality itself, Krysta and her partner Jax Argos are pulled into something deeper than the arcane world they know. And something is watching from the spaces in between, shaping the world through stolen thought and fractured imagination.

This isn’t magic with rules. It’s something older. Hungrier.

As the line between imagination and reality erodes, Krysta finds herself facing an enemy that can’t be tracked, can’t be reasoned with, and may already have overtaken the people she’s sworn to protect. Every step forward twists the truth further, and every answer feels like bait.

Because in this city, reality is being rewritten.

And something from another realm has noticed her.

The second installment of The Shadow Ledger descends deeper into a world where magic no longer plays by its own rules—and survival may depend on how long you can hold on to your own mind.

Thank you for your attention and consideration.