Valkyrie Collections Books in Order

The Valkyrie Collections books shift McClellan's focus from battlefields and empires to modern day Cleveland, where the biggest problem in a monster's life might be a missed payment. These are fast, punchy urban fantasies about supernatural debt collection and the cost of signing a contract you do not fully understand.

At the center is Alek Fitz, a reaper who works as the lead collection agent for Valkyrie Collections. His clients are not banks or cable companies, but the Lords of Hell, ancient vampires, loa, goblins, and other entities that trade in bargains and favors. Alek is magically bound to the job by a contract he never agreed to his parents sold him into service long ago so when the agency says jump, he goes, whether the debtor is a hedge witch or something that crawled out of myth.

The books treat Cleveland as a character in its own right. Instead of coastal skylines, you get rust belt neighborhoods, strip malls, and snow clogged streets, all layered over with hidden supernatural courts and back rooms where Death might be nursing a drink. That blue collar setting suits Alek, who approaches his work like any overworked contractor, grumbling about paperwork while negotiating with liches and demon princes.

Each story gives him a new mess to clean up. In Uncanny Collateral, Death hires Alek to track down a stolen piece of divine property, pulling him into undead vendettas, supernatural red tape, and a brewing imp war. Blood Tally forces him to take a job from a local vampire lord, chasing a runaway thrall through a web of blackmail and competing predators who treat the Rules of their world as optional.

Alek rarely works alone. His closest ally is Maggie, an ancient djinn with a complicated past and a snarky sense of humor, bound to a ring but far from powerless. Together they navigate everything from office politics at the agency to the question of what, exactly, counts as "collateral" when you are repossessing a soul.

The tone of the Valkyrie Collections is lighter than the war heavy epics but still grounded. There is quipping, barroom banter, and bizarre clients, yet the stories keep circling back to agency and exploitation what it means to work off a debt you never chose, and how to push back when your bosses might literally be Hell.

For readers who like modern fantasy with monsters in alleyways, contracts written in blood, and a hero whose main talent is stubborn professionalism, these books offer a fun, tight window into another corner of McClellan's imagination.