Check out the list of released books and short stories available now or coming soon! Most books are or will be available from major book retailers. If anything has limited distribution, the summary will mention it. If you just want to see books and short stories listed in chronological order, without the descriptions, see the chronology page.
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Released Books and Stories
Super
Adrenaline junkie and almost-respectable accountant Zita Garcia wouldn’t know a superhero from some dude in his pajamas. As a result, the second-to-last thing she expected was to wake from a spontaneous coma, quarantined, and with super powers she has to hide from everyone, including her family. Now Zita must master her new abilities while dodging kidnappers, evading government inquiries, and finding her missing brother.
The only thing weirder would have been if the blind date had gone well.
Super is the first and pilot episode in the Arca superhero urban fantasy series, so includes both the “origin story” of her powers and her first adventure(s) using them. It also contains immoderate language, lame sexual innuendo, and comic book violence. Available in both paperback and ebook formats.
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Washout
Sneaking out of quarantine, Zita and Andy try to unwind and practice their new powers in an isolated corner of Arizona. However, neither Mother Nature nor their fellow man is going to go along with their plans for a quick, uneventful trip.
This is an approximately 4,000 word short story set between Super chapters 10 and 11, and is only available to newsletter subscribers.
Octopus
All Zita wanted was dinner, but what she got was trouble.
Octopus is a “flash fiction” (extremely short ~1000 words) story, and occurs between the events of Super and Human. No hentai. It includes comic book violence, justifiable swearing, and a grumbling stomach.
This story is part of Bite-Sized Stories: A Multi-Genre Flash Fiction Anthology (Flash Flood #1), available for free. While weighted heavily toward sci fi, fantasy, and horror, a couple of other genres are also available in this volume.
Human
Death? Acceptable risk. Taxes? No problem. Ancient magical cutlery of mass destruction? Bad, very bad.
Following a brief foray into the world of superpowered vigilantism, extreme sports enthusiast and halfhearted tax preparer, Zita Garcia, wants her old life, her shiny new abilities, and none of the consequences. She’s even willing to hide her powers since the alternative means endangering her family and living life as a literal lab rat.
Unfortunately, villains are searching for the pieces of a decrepit magic dagger, hurting innocents and fueling nasty anti-super protests. Her close friends, who helped before, are barely speaking to her, and one of them stands in the path of the violent hunt for the knife.
Zita better dig out her mask—fast.
Human is the second in the Arca superhero urban fantasy series and contains immoderate language, cheesy sexual innuendo, and comic book violence. While Human can be read as a standalone, it includes minor spoilers for the first book in the series. Available in both ebook and paperback formats.
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Tourists
When possible extraterrestrials invade the Las Vegas Strip, it will take superheroes to stop them. Even if those superheroes are neophytes.
This is an approximately 10,500 word short story set after Human, and is only available to newsletter subscribers.
Power
After successfully rescuing her brother from a serial killer and stopping a plot to use a magic butter knife to massacre thousands, Zita Garcia is ready for a return to her regular life: illegally climbing skyscrapers, hiding her superpowers, and grudgingly earning a paycheck to cover all those bills piling up.
Unfortunately, her least favorite supervillains are rampaging around in a bloody crime spree, outmaneuvering and outgunning the authorities. Enlisting her friends to help, even the one sulking in his dad’s basement, she’s got to stop the bad guys and their latest evil plan before anyone else dies. Even if Zita isn’t sure what they’re doing, other than it involves Brazil.
And maybe dinosaurs.
Power is the third in the Arca superhero urban fantasy series and contains immoderate language, cheesy sexual innuendo, and comic book violence.
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Pie
While on a multi-day road trip, Zita has to deal with a cranky brother and a rampaging pink monster, armed only with her wits and some pie. Or at least the pie.
This short story is set after Power and is only available to newsletter subscribers.
Roses in December
When her aunt with dementia is taken on a disastrous day trip, research librarian Wyn will have to step out of the stacks and get down and dirty to save her.
Even if it means hiking.
This Arca World short story occurs after Pie and is only available to newsletter subscribers.
Monster
Tax season. It’s all forms and games until someone loses a murderer.
Authorities have abandoned the search for a sadistic serial killer with a grudge against Zita Garcia’s family. Never one to sit still, the sometime superhero and reluctant tax preparer will do whatever it takes to find him.
With her loved ones at stake, she’ll call in her best friends and questionable new allies to help. If finding her quarry means Zita has to fight literal monsters, wrangle glitter-obsessed vampires, or go to a nightclub, she’ll do it. Even if the undead and line dances make her skin crawl. She needs to get her mask on and solve this fast—before things go from bad to hearse.
A shovel to get through the three feet of snow wouldn’t hurt either.
Monster is the fourth book in the Arca superhero urban fantasy series and includes immoderate language and comic book violence.
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Quarry
Some people dig up trouble everywhere they go, even when they’re literally in a hole in the ground.
Zita Garcia’s one of them. The part-time superhero has to step up–or climb down–to save the day yet again.
This short story occurs a week or two after Monster and is only available to newsletter subscribers.
Concrete
Never mess with a hungry woman’s snacks. Everything would’ve been fine, if the robbers had just left the snacks alone.
Sometimes, a woman has to take action, even if she’s pretending not to be a superpowered vigilante.
This short story occurs a few days preceding Toga and is only available to newsletter subscribers.
Toga
Go home, myths, you’re drunk.
After a magical accident, part-time superhero Zita Garcia and her two closest friends wake up stranded in an ancient Greece that could only have existed if all the myths were real and somewhat inebriated.
Unfortunately, they can only leave with help from the locals, not all of whom are friendly. The dryads are downright deadly, and even the normally chatty centaurs aren’t talking. To convince them to assist, Zita and her friends will have to go questing, just like in all the classic fantasy novels. The ones Zita never bothered to read.
If they win, they’ll get the help they need.
If they don’t, they better get used to togas.
Toga is the fifth in the Arca superhero urban fantasy series and includes contains deliberate historical inaccuracies, immoderate language, cheesy sexual innuendo, and comic book violence.
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Breaking the Ice
Andy’s been living a secret life as a superpowered vigilante for over a year now. The first day at a new job should be a piece of cake in comparison.
Shouldn’t it?
This Arca World short story occurs after Tough Love and precedes Party. It is only available to newsletter subscribers.
Tough Love
Tokio might be doomed, but is Andy’s secret relationship?
This Arca World short story occurs shortly after Toga.
This short story is only available to newsletter subscribers. It was previously available as part of Beneath the Mask: A Superhero Romance Anthology.
Party 
As it turns out, being a masked, superpowered vigilante isn’t entirely legal. Who knew?
When a critically ill teenager with powers disappears, part-time superhero and full-time trouble magnet Zita Garcia is on the case. Unfortunately, the girl isn’t the only person to have disappeared, and the culprit isn’t a mystery. It’s a conspiracy.
A shadowy government agency has escalated from irritating robocalls to the obvious next steps, kidnapping and murder. If an intolerant new party can use rising anti-metahuman sentiment to win an upcoming election, their actions might not even be a crime. All Zita and her friends have to do is save the missing and avoid the bad publicity of doing something stupid that would tip the delicate political situation the wrong way…
They’re doomed.
Party is the sixth in the Arca superhero urban fantasy series and contains cheesy sexual innuendo, immoderate language, and comic book violence.
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Sunk
There’s nothing like a peaceful day trip to the sunny ocean… unless it’s not peaceful, nice, or sunny. When part-time vigilantes Arca, Muse, and Wingspan go searching for a lost scientific expedition, things blow up fast… literally. At least there’s lots of ocean?
This short story occurs after Party and precedes Sharp. It is only available to newsletter subscribers.
Shakedown Cruise
Freighter captain Tevi would give her left hook prosthetic for things to go right for once.
Being stranded in a damaged ship in pirate territory isn’t the worst thing that’s ever happened to her, but it’s not what Tevi wanted when she sank her life savings into a used spaceship. The passengers are shifty, the pirates are threatening, and an unknown saboteur keeps breaking things, including the caffeine dispenser. That’s not the cushy retirement job she’d hoped for.
With only herself to rely on, Tevi needs to outwit the pirates, solve the mystery of the saboteur, and get her ship back on course before its first flight becomes her last.
This science fiction mystery is a novella and only available to newsletter subscribers.
Sharp
Supervillains are awful, but visiting your mom can be killer!
When money runs short and her uptight brother settles in for a long-term, open-ended stay, Zita Garcia is all too ready to ditch DC and spend October in her mother’s small town. How hard could it be to work in a pumpkin patch for a month? However, when the employee she’s filling in for shows up very dead and she’s the main suspect, Zita’s going to have to rush into action without giving away her secret identity as Arca, a part-time vigilante with superpowers.
It doesn’t help that her best friends are gallivanting in another dimension, classic Halloween monsters are running amok, and a supervillain wants her to step up her nemesis game and pay more attention to him.
If Zita doesn’t keep the villains in check and squash the killer without giving away her secret identity, it could be a very stabby Halloween.
Sharp is the seventh book in the Arca urban fantasy superhero series and contains immoderate language, cheesy sexual innuendo, and comic book violence.
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Sea
Zita Garcia faces her greatest challenge yet—working with her irritatingly perky nemesis and being nice.
In their youth, Caroline tore Zita’s family apart with a few careless words and then meandered off to fame, fortune, and a cushy government position. Zita is finally content in her double life as herself and the part-time vigilante, Arca, despite one of her best friends dating the dimwit.
Now, something’s fishy when terrorists from Atlantis threaten to unleash nuclear weapons on Baltimore unless they get two things: their missing princess…
And Arca.
If Zita wants to save the city, she has to drown her feelings, strap on her big-girl fins, and take a deep dive to stop the villains… with Caroline at her side.
Sea is the eighth book in the Arca urban fantasy superhero series and contains immoderate language, ridiculous liberties with both history and myth, and comic book violence.
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Breaking the Bank
Down-on-his-luck Moe has a daring plan to reverse his fortunes, but as usual, everything goes every direction but the one he expected.
This Arca World short story is only available to newsletter subscribers.
Change
People keep telling her to go to Hell. This time, Zita Garcia’s taking their advice.
Last summer, the sometime superhero and her friends defeated a supervillain plot, but the evildoers vanished and the aftermath was mythical. If she’d ever bothered to read a comic book, she might’ve known they’d be back.
Now, the villains return, flaunting new bling, improved powers, and a snazzy private army. Their mission is simple: to control the world and turn Zita’s friends into history.
To stop them and save her friends, Zita must raid the literal Greek Underworld alone, and worse yet, without snacking. Her only ally? The sort-of boyfriend who might’ve been breaking up with her before he went missing.
Will the ghosts of the past prevail or can Zita save her friends, the world, and maybe even her relationship?
Change is the ninth book in the Arca urban fantasy superhero series. It contains immoderate language, brazen liberties with history and myth, and comic book violence.
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Upcoming Releases
2024 Holiday Short Story
Books 10-12
