The series

Distressed Asset

Earth has six Fiscal Quarters to raise humanity's combined value above the outstanding balance. One book per quarter. Six books total.

File 1 · Book One

Distressed Asset

The world ended in foreclosure. He's filing an appeal.

The aliens didn't invade Earth. They foreclosed on it.

Insurance adjuster Walt Pruitt has a lousy Appraised Value, a class nobody wants (Independent Adjuster: Universally disliked), and three hours before the System "disposes of" his mother as a fully depreciated asset.

All he has is a red stapler, a ragtag crew, and a seahorse notary who insists on proper forms.

Monsters can be fought. Paperwork can be disputed.

Series: Distressed Asset, Book 1 of 6
Genre: LitRPG · System apocalypse · Comedy · Satire
Length: 30 chapters, about 111,000 words
Status: Complete. Not yet released.
Content notes: Monster violence and gore, including deaths of named characters. A parent with dementia. Grief and mass casualties. Moderate profanity. No sexual content.

Where to read

Royal RoadFree web serial, a chapter a dayRead freeComing soon
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Books 2–6

Negative Equity

The crew crosses the Southwest while humanity's combined valuation crashes, and some humans discover there's money to be made buying other people's debt.

Open House

Alien buyers arrive to tour the property. Phoenix gets staged into a luxury biome. Somebody is going to have to rob an open house.

Balloon Payment

Meridian changes the terms mid-quarter. Somewhere in the paperwork is the name of whoever took out the original loan.

Class Action

One planet, one appeal, and a filing fee nobody can afford.

Sentimental Value

The final quarter. Humanity's real worth, argued in Meridian's own court.

Titles and descriptions of future books are working plans and may change. Like the interest rate.