This is Magic and Metal. An Urban Fantasy Serial by Rebecca Ryals, read for you by text to speech technology. In this monthly, serial audiobook podcast, I'll read a beta version of chapters for you. If you love Urban Fantasy detectives stories, then Magic & Metal is the podcast for you. Detective Jax Spencer walks a dangerous line in a near-future Chicago where magic and technology collide. As a half-dragon passing as human, he's uniquely qualified to join the city's supernatural crimes task-force—and uniquely vulnerable to exposure. When Mara Larkin-Osborn—brilliant researcher, secret hacker, and wife of Jax's foster brother—stumbles into the precinct with fractured memories and tales of a mysterious lab break-in, Jax is plunged into a case that threatens to expose everything he's fought to hide. Caught between his badge and his blood, Jax must solve the case before his own scales show. But in a world where memories can be hacked and magic can be muzzled, who can he truly trust? "Magic & Metal" is a pulse-pounding urban fantasy noir that explores the cost of identity in a world that fears difference. It's "Altered Carbon" meets "The Dresden Files," with a dragon-shaped twist that will keep listeners guessing until the very last page.