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by: P.R. Frost
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780756404246
ISBN: 075640424X
Label: DAW Hardcover
Manufacturer: DAW Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: September 04, 2007
Publisher: DAW Hardcover
Sales Rank: 932205
Studio: DAW Hardcover
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Theresa NoncoirŽ was a successful fantasy writer. But Tess had another career as well, trained by the Sisterhood of the Celestial Blade Warriors to fight demonic incursions into our world. Teamed with a mischievous imp called Scrap, she's returned home after saving the world, only to discover that demonic trouble has followed her right to her own doorstep...
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Rating:  - WHAT ELSE COULD GO WRONG?
Reviewed by Vicky Burkholder
on 07/13/2008
In Cape Cod in the winter, what else is there to do besides fend off the advances of two love interests, her ghostly husband, a Windago, hordes of orculli trolls and an editor who wants her latest book yesterday? Tess does all this and more in this fun urban fantasy from P.R. Frost. Oh, and in addition to this, she has to: try to keep her mother from marrying a demon; figure out the appearance of Windscribe, a member of her aunt's coven ... Read More
Rating:  - Ghosts and windagos and garden gnomes that bite--oh my!
If it doesn't rain, it snows--at least that's probably the most apropos adage for this novel based in a Cape Cod winter. Science fiction and fantasy author, fangirl, and Warrior of the Celestial Blade has more than she can handle, including:
* visits by the ghost of her ex-husband, Dillwyn, who is looking more and more suspicious with each visit
* attacks by Lilia David, a Windago widow whose husband Tess killed in the first novel
* invasion by an army of biting garden gnomes ... Read More
Rating: - fantastic magical urban fantasy
She is a Warrior of the Celestial Blade and bound magically to the imp Scrap. Her job is to make sure that demons don't enter this plane through portals and if they do, she has to send them back to their own realm. Her morning gets off to a bad start when her friend Allie the police officer calls her and tells she saw a young woman emerge from empty space and is being chased by garden gnomes with sharp teeth.
As Tess Noncoire goes to fix the problems, she thinks it is unfair because just before ... Read More
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