A. Lee Martinez Books in Order

Never Dead Ned, a soldier who repeatedly returns from death, is assigned command of a disastrous company of monsters. He has six months to discipline them, but discovering the cause of his immortality makes staying alive unexpectedly urgent.

An undead witch living quietly with an eccentric group of companions is drawn into danger when a knight arrives ahead of invading goblings. Their alliance becomes a quest to stop the sorcerer behind a threat to the world.

Built for destruction, robot Mack Megaton wants citizenship and an ordinary life in Empire City. When his neighbors vanish, his search uncovers a conspiracy that forces him to decide what kind of machine he will become.

When a cruel wizard dies, his castle full of transformed prisoners begins descending into chaos. Nessy, its practical kobold housekeeper, must protect her unusual charges from curses, monsters, and a dangerous sorceress using little more than determination.

A supermarket worker's encounter with a freezer-raiding yeti brings her together with a specialist in supernatural pest control. Mutual dislike gives way to reluctant cooperation as an expanding collection of monsters threatens far more than the grocery store.

Hoping for better luck, Teri and Phil choose a personal god online and welcome a prosperity deity into their lives. His request for a place to stay soon entangles them in divine rivalries, heartbreak, and revenge.

Diana's affordable new apartment comes with a ravenous monster and a prohibition against leaving. When even greater creatures threaten the moon and the world, she must work with her alarming housemates to keep everything from being consumed.

Retired conqueror Emperor Mollusk prefers dangerous experiments to ruling Earth, but assassins and a bodiless rival disrupt his leisure. The former tyrant must revive his arsenal to defend the planet from another would-be overlord's ambitions.

A minotaur girl and her human companion travel through an enchanted America under an ancient god's curse. With reluctant orc assassins pursuing them, their roadside adventures lead toward a destination that could prove disastrous for everyone.

Ten original stories revisit the strange worlds of Martinez's novels, following creatures, gods, and unlikely adventurers through new predicaments. Encounters involving werewolves, wizards, and troublesome pixies mix fantastic dangers with surprisingly ordinary anxieties and desires.

After a lifetime of extraordinary adventures, Constance Verity wants an ordinary job and a normal relationship. Escaping the destiny imposed by her fairy godmother requires one last quest, but powerful forces are determined to keep their world-saving champion.

Constance has finally achieved the ordinary life she wanted, but abandoning her destiny leaves a dangerous vacancy. When unsuitable contenders seek the Adventurer's role, she must intervene while trying to preserve the normal existence she fought to gain.

Constance accepts an impossible challenge: resisting the eventual end of everything by saving enough worlds. As relentless adventures exhaust her human limits, her friends seek an alarming solution to protect her from a task she cannot sustain.

Petty criminal Ortiz discovers a sword that holds an apocalyptic dragon at bay while digging his own grave. Suddenly indispensable to dangerous people, he must navigate criminal threats and mythical realms while deciding who should carry the weapon.