DFZ

Minimum Wage Magic kicks off the DFZ trilogy as Opal Yong-ae, a debt-ridden freelance mage in the lawless Detroit Free Zone, takes a routine clean-out job and finds a murdered mage hiding a secret worth dying for.

With a payment deadline looming and a city full of people who want that secret buried, Opal must hustle harder than ever in a place where getting in over your head usually means losing it entirely.

Packed with sharp humor, vivid world-building, and a protagonist whose scrappy ingenuity makes her impossible not to root for.

In Part-Time Gods, former Cleaner Opal Yong-ae is reduced to a walking disaster thanks to a nasty bad-luck curse slapped on her by her overbearing dragon father. Every move she makes backfires, making daily survival in the magical Detroit Free Zone nearly impossible. Breaking dragon magic is suicidal, but Opal refuses to surrender her freedom. Armed with stubborn grit, her trusty mental health AI, and an audacious partner, she must navigate the machinations of ruthless deities and ancient powers before her own weaponized misfortune destroys her.

Opal Yong-ae thought breaking her curse would grant her peace, but in Night Shift Dragons, she faces a whole new nightmare: babysitting her tyrannical dragon father while every wyrm alive hunts his head. When a rival spirit ambushes her patron god, the magical DFZ devolves into a brutal gladiatorial death arena—with her partner, Nik, ensnared as its champion. Outmatched and outgunned, Opal must rely on her wits and an uneasy alliance with her dysfunctional dragon family to pull off an impossible rescue before the city drowns in divine war.