Hero Imperative

Private Investigator Jason Kane is the man to turn to when the cops can't help. His quick wits, ready fists, and unbending thirst for justice have earned him the respect of low-life street crooks and the corrupt political elite alike. But like almost everybody, Kane has always taken for granted that his world is all there is. Then his best friend starts babbling about witches, his client in a seemingly simple missing-person case reveals she's an engineered visitor from another world, and the missing man becomes a suspect in a conspiracy that threatens an unimaginable catastrophe. When a cybernetic goddess commissions Kane as her Hero in the struggle to prevent it, he's hopelessly out of his depth. But Kane has a hero's heart, and the looming peril makes it imperative that he rise as a Hero to defend everything he loves, even at the cost of losing himself.