by JGSolid
HE SURVIVED THE GREAT WAR.HARLEM MAY FINISH THE JOB. The Great War made Cyrus Ashwood a hero. The Kingdom forgot him the moment he came home. Now the battle-scarred Dark Elf lives operates a struggling detective agency in the heart of Harlem, solving the kinds of cases that never make the newspapers. Missing inheritances. Blackmail. Murder. Corruption. Husbands with too many secrets. Politicians with too much power. If the rich want justice, they hire lawyers. If the forgotten want justice, they hire Cyrus. But every case pulls him deeper into a city where dragon bankers bankroll gang wars, orc mafia bosses answer to men they've never met, nobles trade favors like currency, and the ghosts of the Great War still haunt the streets beneath the jazz. As old enemies return, unlikely allies emerge, and a conspiracy reaches from Harlem's back alleys to the highest halls of the Kingdom of America, Cyrus discovers the hardest battles aren't fought in the trenches. They're fought at home.
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