By day, Lizzy Drake is a college sophomore, and by night, she's the unspoken second half of Murdock Investigations, the only private investigative agency in the Greater D.C. area run by Preterhumans, for Preterhumans. Currently, she's the half of the team that doesn't sling spells... or get paid. What started out as an assignment for university ethics is turning into a career where she could very well become the first half-vampire investigator in Washington... if she can just convince her boss to actually put her on the books. Soon, the case they're working on turns out to be a lot more than anyone in the Preterhuman world ever expected, as rumors begin to surface of monsters that even demons fear, creatures forgotten in the dark of the night, things best left forgotten...

Amaranth is the first book in The Preterhumans series narrated by Lizzy Drake. By day she's a college sophomore, and by night she's the unspoken second half of Murdock Investigations—the only private investigative agency in the greater D.C. area run by Preterhumans, for Preterhumans. Currently, she's the half of the team that doesn't sling spells or get paid. What started out as an assignment for university ethics is turning into a career where she could very well become the first half-vampire investigator in Washington, if she can just convince her boss to actually put her on the books. Soon, the case they're working on turns out to be a lot more than anyone in the Preterhuman world ever expected, as rumors begin to surface of monsters that even demons fear, creatures forgotten in the dark of the night, things best left forgotten.

"It's been six months since Amaranth and the Dark Lander attack. Life in Washington, D.C., is starting to move on. There's even a bill floating around Congress to give Preterhumans rights equal to humans. It's a good time to be a Preterhuman in the city if you ignore the attacks that are going on. Lizzy Drake, the half-vampire part of Murdock Investigations, the only private investigative agency in the Greater D.C. area run by Preterhumans for Preterhumans, is looking into who would dare attack a goddess"--Publisher.

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