Licensed Disaster
Ongoing
Author
Theo CastellanoTheo Castellano writes darkly witty fantasy in worlds where the laws of magic and physics bend just enough to break everything. In the *Licensed Disaster* series, set in the gravity-warped streets of the Sunken Reach, protagonist Morrigan Ashvale tackles impossible infrastructure problems with hard-won competence and the grim certainty that her next job might be her last. Castellano's fiction explores burnout, resilience, and the small rebellions of people trying to keep broken systems from collapsing entirely. With sharp humor threading through lush, disorienting worldbuilding, these novels offer readers the rare combination of high-stakes adventure and intimate character study. *Overdue* and *Classified* are the first chapters in an expanding saga of disaster, magic, and the people stubborn enough to face both.
In the Sunken Reach—a lawless basin city where magic pools in the streets and gravity itself has gone wrong—Morrigan Ashvale holds a license to fix impossible problems. She's competent, burned-out, and absolutely certain she'll die on the job. When the infrastructure starts failing and someone needs to wade into the dark to find out why, she's the only one desperate or foolish enough to go.
Meet the cast
Get to know the characters of this series — who they are and where they're from.
Morri
She has fourteen careers behind her and a chalk-stained secret she hasn't unwrapped yet.
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Fen
She knows which questions have been forbidden longer than most people have been alive.
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Sable
He already knows more than he's letting on — and he's perfectly happy to wait until you figure that out.
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Petra
She knows exactly which records disappeared and exactly how much she'll tell you about it.
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Colm
He knows something the system isn't supposed to say, and he almost told you.
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Book 1
OverdueWhen Morri finds a library book overdue by fourteen months in a merchant's crawlspace, it's just another artifact of negligence—until she realizes what it contains. A licensed disaster remediation specialist with a reputation for cutting corners and borrowing things she shouldn't, Morri is about to learn that some debts can't be paid with a simple fine. What happens when the most meticulous person about the rules discovers the rules don't apply to everyone?
Book 2
ClassifiedWhen a thirty-year-overdue library book lands on Morri's desk, it shatters her belief that the disasters she fixes are accidents—not deliberate design. Now caught between a contamination crisis and a secret someone died to keep hidden, she must decide whether the truth is worth the cost of knowing it. In a world where information is weaponized and nothing is accidental, can she survive what she uncovers?