Arca Series

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 in the Arca superhero urban fantasy series, and as a movie, would be rated "R" for immoderate language, lame sexual innuendo, and comic book violence.

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, supervillains 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 as a movie would be rated “R” for immoderate language, lame sexual innuendo, and comic book violence. While Human can be read as a standalone, it contains minor spoilers for the first book in the series.

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 police. 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 includes immoderate language, lame sexual innuendo, and comic book violence.

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.

Go home, myths, you're drunk. After a magical accident, 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, lame sexual innuendo, and comic book violence.

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 lame sexual innuendo, immoderate language, and comic book violence.

Supervillains are the worst, but visiting your mom can be killer!   With bills piling up and her uptight brother settled in her home for an open-ended stay, Zita Garcia ditches DC to spend October in her mother's cozy small town. How hard could working in a pumpkin patch be? Especially when compared to a secret second life as the superpowered vigilante Arca.   As it turns out, pretty difficult. The guy she's filling in for shows up very dead, and Zita is the main suspect. It doesn't help that her 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, 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.