John Smith, supernatural mediator and private investigator, has come a long way since he first got kidnapped by vampires.He has a girlfriend now and an ever-growing list of responsibilities. Even the supernatural species of San Diego seem to think he's someone to be reckoned with.And then Bill, the asparagus Demigod of Nightmares, Terror, and Vindication, shows up in John's dream with ominous news: one of Bill's fellow immortals has been murdered.How do you kill a d...

"Do you do this sort of thing a lot?""Fly across the world to defend someone from murder accusations with my own life hanging in the balance?" I shook my head. "It's less common than you might think."It's been several years since John Smith became San Diego's supernatural mediator, and he's as surprised to still be alive as anyone. A lot of the credit goes to Anastasia, the vampire whose relationship status with John can be safely filed under 'It'...

Now that he's back home in San Diego, life is looking up for John Smith, hapless P.I. and supernatural mediator.And sure, there may be a few flies in the ointment, like the little matter of an ongoing goblin war, the disappearance of John's chief mediator rival, and an ever-growing list of questions about the suspicious events of the past few years, but those are all topics for another day. It's wedding season and the sun is shining, the weather is perfect, and the early fall air i...

"Broken-Neck spat forth a stream of Spanish which no doubt contained disparaging comments about my intelligence. Or my appearance. Or my fashion sense. The only Spanish words I knew were the expletives my friend Mike had taught me. Even so, I recognized insults when I heard them."The White Ladies of San Diego are one of the city's supernatural powers, organized and led by Graciela. But now their leader is missing, and the Ladies have hired John Smith, mediator and sometime...

The stakes are real. The mediator isn't."Investigation, Mediation, Vindication." That's how the Yellow Pages ad starts, and if it sounds like the sort of thing a drunk teenager might come up with . . . well, you'd only be wrong about the teenager part. John Smith owns San Diego's smallest private investigation firm, but he doesn't know the first thing about mediation. Or vindication.On the other side of town, vampire Lucia Borghesi is having a terrible cent...

"Messy divorce? Check.Emotional stability of the involved parties? Questionable.Possibility of bloodshed? High.Yep; it was definitely starting to sound like one of my cases."In addition to being San Diego's supernatural mediator, John Smith is the city's least successful private investigator. Those two careers collide when what was supposed to be a simple infidelity case draws the attention of the local werewolf pack. John...