L.J.K. OLIVA

SHADES BELOW Series | Book 1

There are places in San Francisco where people disappear… and no one notices.

Psychic medium Lena Alan lives with one foot in the Demimonde, the shadowed layer of the city where the dead linger and the past refuses to stay buried. Her work is usually quiet: helping restless spirits cross the Veil. But when the ghost of someone familiar vanishes before she can save them, Lena realizes something is deeply wrong.

Her search for answers puts her on a collision course with Jesper MacMillian, a private investigator bound to an inheritance of power, obligation, and history he has spent his life trying to escape. Together, they uncover a pattern of violence against the city’s most vulnerable residents.

Something dark is moving through San Francisco’s forgotten neighborhoods, feeding on secrecy, erasure, and the thin boundary between the living and the dead. When the truth finally emerges, both Lena and MacMillian will be forced onto a path neither can walk alone.

A WORLD APART is a literary urban fantasy about haunted cities, magic with consequences, and the cost of seeing what lives in the dark.

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SHADES BELOW Series | Book 2

San Francisco is a city of ghosts. Some of them refuse to stay dead.

A strange illness is tearing through the city’s vampire population, stripping away restraint and turning old predators feral. When her brother Cyrus agrees to consult for the unnervingly charismatic vampire Seneca Lynch, psychic medium Lena Alan is forced into a world she has always kept at arm’s length.

Reunited with private detective Jesper MacMillian, they enter a part of the Demimonde where folklore is fact, alliances are unraveling, and every favor comes at a cost. Seneca Lynch claims he wants to stop what is spreading. Whether that makes him an ally or something far worse remains unclear.

As the lines between predator and protector blur, Lena and MacMillian must decide how far into the shadows they’re prepared to go… and whether some evils can only be survived by letting them in.

THE DEVIL’S DISEASE is a literary urban fantasy about haunted cities, corrupted monsters, and the toll it takes to survive what hunts in the dark.

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SHADES BELOW Series | Book 3

In San Francisco, not everyone who leaves makes it back.

The Wayfare Hotel for Restless Spirits has always existed at a crossroads, where the living, the dead, and the forgotten overlap. But mysterious forces have strained the fragile fabric of the Veil, and boundaries once taken for granted are starting to unravel.

Still reeling from a devastating loss, psychic medium Lena Alan returns to the Wayfare to find its familiar systems in chaos. She ignores the warning signs… until a violent accident rips her from her own reality and hurls her across space and time. Lena passes through worlds that look familiar, but follow very different rules. She’s not the first person to travel this way. The last one returned broken, his mind unable to survive the journey.

Her disappearance plunges private detective Jesper MacMillian into a desperate search that stretches beyond logic, physics, and the limits of his own understanding. At the crossroads of science and magic, Lena and MacMillian must decide who can be trusted, what must be sacrificed, and whether some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.

GHOST IN THE MACHINE is a literary urban fantasy about haunted cities, fractured realities, and how to tell which stars guide the way home.

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SHADES BELOW Series | Book 4

There are things in San Francisco that refuse to be caged.

A brutal killing sends shockwaves through San Francisco’s shadowy underworld. This wasn’t random savagery, however. It was targeted, and it was meant to be seen.

Still recovering from her long journey, psychic medium Lena Alan wants nothing to do with monsters. But when the crime begins to echo through the Veil, she recognizes a familiar pattern. Something is breaking, and the damage won’t stay contained for long.

Alongside private detective Jesper MacMillian, Lena descends into a hidden world defined by violence, rage, and long-festering resentment. At the center of it all is Daniel Zerubbabel, a man who may be victim, perpetrator… or both. Lena and MacMillian are forced to confront an uncomfortable reality: not every danger can be stopped, and not every monster wants to be spared.

In a city built on buried histories and fragile compromises, they must decide what responsibility looks like when containment fails, and what it costs to stand in front of something determined to break free.

GRAVEYARD SHIFT is a literary urban fantasy about haunted cities, unstable monsters, and what happens when the cage bars snap.

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