The individual stories tend to be multi-genre (crime thrillers, adventure, mystery) within this fantasy environment and use a rotating ensemble cast of characters.

The series takes place in a world that is geologically identical to Earth, consisting of the same continents and land masses, but with an alternative history that is significantly different from reality.

The alternative history of this world is that of a diverse pagan society in which magic and mythical creatures, such as elves, ogres and dwarves, have always existed openly alongside humans.

More specifically, the series as a whole focuses on the existential debate that asks "Is man defined by his nature, or does his nature define the man?” Some characters appear strictly confined to their character types and unable to break out of their mold, while others at times can, at times, act contrary to their personalities.

However, despite their internal conflicts, most characters are on some level depicted as everyday sentients (within the fantasy realm) struggling to make do in a universe over which they have little control.

There are also several religious themes involving paganism, gnosticism, pantheism and free will in a world where miracles and faith healers are commonplace.

In Fruit of the Poisonous Vine, a form of Christianity was introduced that is loosely based on the fractured state of the first-century church.

He is a weaselly little sociopath who has displayed uncompromising cutthroat tactics in his unrelenting quest to climb the corporate ladder as swiftly as possible.

He is an underhanded, backstabbing, manipulative liar capable of fabricating a plausible cover story at the drop of a hat.

Detective Inspector Sterling Fairmont is the world-weary head of the City Guard's Gang Related Task Force.

She works for Victor Jardine on a freelance basis utilizing her considerable photography and computer skills performing video surveillance and hacking databases.

As a high-ranking member (but certainly not a leader of) an organized crime syndicate, she does some very nasty and evil things, including killing people.

Several advanced magic-users and clerics recognize a strong natural talent for magic in Teri, leading them to believe she could be a potentially powerful sorcerer.

After losing a scholarship due to poor grades, she was forced to take a job at Dwarkin Exterminators in order to pay her tuition.

Pauline Grace Bethesda is a Hispanic young woman who is a member of a Yesuan religious order, referred to as Paulites, that is evangelically monotheistic.

This sect is considered to be a cult by the majority of the pantheistic society of Stonehaven, and alienates itself even farther by preaching against the use of magic of any kind.

She attracted the attention of these mobsters, and Vincent Capulous, when she helped organize a protest against Divinity Medical Center.

A magic-user and cleric who had spent years wallowing in his own self-pity and mediocrity, which helped to form massive delusions of grandeur in regards to his place in the ‘grand scheme of nature.’ He accidentally formed some sort of artificial group consciousness with a large population of trolls living in the underground infrastructure of the city.

Priya Kika is a Felidae cleric at the Abbey of Brighid Belenus, and the night supervisor at Divinity Medical Center's immediate care unit.

The chance to study xenobiology, practice inter-species medicine, as well as witness magical therapies and thaumaturgical healing firsthand was nothing less than a dream come true.

Despite being a secular doctor, Tylar comes from a family of tradition thaumaturgical healers—the Aleantylar Clan or Noble House of Healers.

The life of a private investigator is far from glamorous considering one makes his living following people for suspicious spouses, seeking compromising secrets for divorce cases, and occasionally trying to find missing persons.

They are still the boogie man one scares their children with, and there are hundreds of books and TV specials about 'Vampire sightings' (just like UFOs and flying saucers).

However, in Subterranean Hearts, the evil sorcerer Plotinas accidentally created a hive mind with a group of sewer dwelling trolls.

graphic novel Released: 2004 softcover ISBN 0-9675423-4-0 hardcover ISBN 0-9675423-3-2 Milk Cartons and Dog Biscuits is an introduction of the city through the eyes of Dan Parsons, a State Ranger (the equivalent of a marshal or state police trooper) from a rural area known as the Far Reaches, who travels to the city in search of his runaway daughter, Melody.

Receiving no assistance from the Municipal Guard (the city police), he hires a disreputable half-elf private detective, named Victor Jardine, to help in his search.

Their investigation brings them in conflict with the Chinese mob Meili Mau and a renegade werewolf, while introducing a number of recurring characters and institutions.

An intersecting storyline involves Victor Jardine and mob enforcer Meili Mau coming into conflict over a mentally disturbed teenager.

Fruit of the Poisonous Vine is his crime drama focuses on a police investigation of the murder of a barrister in possession of illegal blood donations.

This book focuses on several secondary characters from previous titles, as well as introducing several new protagonists to the series, including the head of a multi-international corporation named Vincent Capulous.