Ascension

Life after death has been a curious experience for Private Investigator Raymond Adams. He was murdered in 1947, was sent to the Abstract Realm (aka Limbo), and then was brought back to life in 2011 to investigate a murder in present-day Hollywood. With the help of his great-granddaughter, Jenn Adams (who was a bit of a saucy wench), he solved the case. Thanks to his success as a dead detective, his dead wife, Karen Adams was pulled out of Hell and reincarnated.

Unfortunately, when the case was over, Raymond Adams was sent back to the Abstract Realm. And there he stayed until…

A Lady of the Realms approaches Detective Adams with a job: Her 12-year-old daughter, Ashima, was kidnapped in Los Angeles; the Lady doesn’t feel that the human policemen are up to the task of finding a Divine lordling. If Adams helps the Lady and finds Ashima, she promises to let him spend time with his daughter, Samantha. Though Adams feels the Lady isn’t telling him everything about the job, the temptation to see his daughter and be with her and explain that he should have been a better father… It’s too great.

He agrees and is brought back to life for 24 hours again. The date is November 2nd, 2020--the Day of the Dead. And very quickly, a kidnapping case becomes a duel with Death itself. Adams has faced Death once, like all mortals do, and lost. This time, to see Samantha again, he must find a way to save Ashima and beat Death.

It’s a daunting task, but like before, the dead detective has help: Jenn Adams joins him; and so does Officer Maeve Flanagan, who the world knows as the Wizard of Hollywood--she might be his most powerful ally. But Maeve has her own secrets. Troubling secrets. And she could become a bigger problem than Death.