Author: Jim C. Hines
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: 193653553X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A werewolf with a taste for puppets... a modern-day bard whose power flows from the bellows of her accordion... a magical dagger with an extremely unusual power. This collection features six lighter fantasy tales from the award-winning author of the Magic Ex Libris series, The Legend of Jig the Dragonslayer series, and the Princess novels, beginning with The Stepsister Scheme.
Strip Mauled
Author: Esther Friesner
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 161824745X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Werewolves and the suburbs are a natural go-together. Okay, so theyre not the Obligatory/Iconic Suburban Golden Retriever or Chocolate Labrador, but theyve got a much better chance of taking home the Best in Show ribbon than their Undead rivals, the vampires. In some suburban households, if it brings home a trophy, who cares if it also brings home bloody chunks of the neighbors every time the full moon shines? And lets not forget one more advantage to the suburban werewolf: If his lupine side does something nasty on your lawn, his human side can come by later with the Pooper Scooper. In your face, Dracula! Therefore, welcome to the fur-sprouting, mall-browsing, moon-howling, latt_-sipping world of Strip Mauled. Youll like what you find. Sit. Stay. Good reader. Stories of suburban lycanthropy by Sarah A. Hoyt, Dave Freer, K. D. Wentworth, and more¾including Esther Friesner herself. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 161824745X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Werewolves and the suburbs are a natural go-together. Okay, so theyre not the Obligatory/Iconic Suburban Golden Retriever or Chocolate Labrador, but theyve got a much better chance of taking home the Best in Show ribbon than their Undead rivals, the vampires. In some suburban households, if it brings home a trophy, who cares if it also brings home bloody chunks of the neighbors every time the full moon shines? And lets not forget one more advantage to the suburban werewolf: If his lupine side does something nasty on your lawn, his human side can come by later with the Pooper Scooper. In your face, Dracula! Therefore, welcome to the fur-sprouting, mall-browsing, moon-howling, latt_-sipping world of Strip Mauled. Youll like what you find. Sit. Stay. Good reader. Stories of suburban lycanthropy by Sarah A. Hoyt, Dave Freer, K. D. Wentworth, and more¾including Esther Friesner herself. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
The Kitemaster
Author: Jim C. Hines
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: 193653553X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A werewolf with a taste for puppets... a modern-day bard whose power flows from the bellows of her accordion... a magical dagger with an extremely unusual power. This collection features six lighter fantasy tales from the award-winning author of the Magic Ex Libris series, The Legend of Jig the Dragonslayer series, and the Princess novels, beginning with The Stepsister Scheme.
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: 193653553X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A werewolf with a taste for puppets... a modern-day bard whose power flows from the bellows of her accordion... a magical dagger with an extremely unusual power. This collection features six lighter fantasy tales from the award-winning author of the Magic Ex Libris series, The Legend of Jig the Dragonslayer series, and the Princess novels, beginning with The Stepsister Scheme.
Fangs for the Mammaries
Author: Esther Friesner
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618247859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Having inflicted the smug homes of suburbia with witches and werewolves. Esther Friesner now unleashes the undead to tap a vein of blood and humor, and drain the suburbs dry of both. Vampires and the suburbs are a match made in heaven, or maybe Levittown. Remember Dracula? He didn't run into any real problems until he took his act on the road and traveled to the Big City. But in the suburbs, everyone is polite and respectful of their neighbors' right to privacy. And if your neighbors happen to have kids selling gift-wrap, magazine subscriptions, cookies, or other school fundraising ploys, and little Emily or Jason happen to come peddling their wares after sundown . . . Who says you have to stay in the city if you want good take-out meals delivered right to your door? There's no one quite like a vampire for saying, _All of you kids get off of my lawn!Ó and putting some teeth into it. The stories in these pages¾by Sarah A. Hoyt, K.D. Wentworth, Dave Freer and more, including Esther Friesner herself¾will convince the reader that vampires and suburbs go together like wine and cheese, gin and tonic, desperation and housewives, marriage and pre-nups. Enter freely and of your own will... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618247859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Having inflicted the smug homes of suburbia with witches and werewolves. Esther Friesner now unleashes the undead to tap a vein of blood and humor, and drain the suburbs dry of both. Vampires and the suburbs are a match made in heaven, or maybe Levittown. Remember Dracula? He didn't run into any real problems until he took his act on the road and traveled to the Big City. But in the suburbs, everyone is polite and respectful of their neighbors' right to privacy. And if your neighbors happen to have kids selling gift-wrap, magazine subscriptions, cookies, or other school fundraising ploys, and little Emily or Jason happen to come peddling their wares after sundown . . . Who says you have to stay in the city if you want good take-out meals delivered right to your door? There's no one quite like a vampire for saying, _All of you kids get off of my lawn!Ó and putting some teeth into it. The stories in these pages¾by Sarah A. Hoyt, K.D. Wentworth, Dave Freer and more, including Esther Friesner herself¾will convince the reader that vampires and suburbs go together like wine and cheese, gin and tonic, desperation and housewives, marriage and pre-nups. Enter freely and of your own will... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Instinct
Author: L. J. Hachmeister
Publisher: Kydala Publishing, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Danger. Evil. Death. Heroes can face it all, but they cannot do it alone. Throughout history, creatures both big and small have stood alongside heroes and helped them through trying times, whether on the battlefield or in their laps. In these brand-new stories, seventeen bestselling authors regale us with adventures of animal companions and how they often are the ones rescuing the rescuer. New stories by / in the world of Jim Butcher – from The Dresden Files Faith Hunter – from Jane Yellowrock Patricia Briggs – from Mercy Thompson Seanan McGuire – standalone L. E. Modesitt – from Archform: Beauty and Flash Kelley Armstrong – from Cainsville L. J. Hachmeister – from the Triorion Universe/Laws of Attraction Sam Knight – from The Abandoned Lands Eliza Eveland – from Talons and Tethers Hailey Edwards – from The Beginner’s Guide to Necromancy D. J. Butler – from Abbott in Darkness Lucienne Diver – from The Latter-Day Olympians A. J. Hartley – from The Bowescroft Series Alex Erickson – from Furever Pets John Hartness – from Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter R.R. Virdi – from Tales of Tremaine Jennifer Blackstream - from Blood Trails Purchasing this book saves a puppy’s life! Book sale profits are donated to: Lifeline Puppy Rescue. Follow the contributors to learn more.
Publisher: Kydala Publishing, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Danger. Evil. Death. Heroes can face it all, but they cannot do it alone. Throughout history, creatures both big and small have stood alongside heroes and helped them through trying times, whether on the battlefield or in their laps. In these brand-new stories, seventeen bestselling authors regale us with adventures of animal companions and how they often are the ones rescuing the rescuer. New stories by / in the world of Jim Butcher – from The Dresden Files Faith Hunter – from Jane Yellowrock Patricia Briggs – from Mercy Thompson Seanan McGuire – standalone L. E. Modesitt – from Archform: Beauty and Flash Kelley Armstrong – from Cainsville L. J. Hachmeister – from the Triorion Universe/Laws of Attraction Sam Knight – from The Abandoned Lands Eliza Eveland – from Talons and Tethers Hailey Edwards – from The Beginner’s Guide to Necromancy D. J. Butler – from Abbott in Darkness Lucienne Diver – from The Latter-Day Olympians A. J. Hartley – from The Bowescroft Series Alex Erickson – from Furever Pets John Hartness – from Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter R.R. Virdi – from Tales of Tremaine Jennifer Blackstream - from Blood Trails Purchasing this book saves a puppy’s life! Book sale profits are donated to: Lifeline Puppy Rescue. Follow the contributors to learn more.
Chicks and Balances
Author: Esther Friesner
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1625794037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
ORIGINAL ANTHOLOGY featuring rollicking, tongue-in-cheek tales of women warrior fighting against the stodgy and in the name of freedom of expression, Chicks in Chainmail style! Continuing a great tradition, Chicks and Balances is not what you might think (or it is what you think, depending on which way your mind runs). What we have here is a bunch of perfectly healthy women who happen to be of the brass-bra-wearing and chain-link bikinis sort. Each is fighting in her own way for the freedom to express herself--often by thrusting sword through a censor's black heart! Be glad, the chicks in chainmail are back, and they will not be oppressed, repressed, or depressed! All new adventures of fearless women warriors by Eric Flint, creator of the Ring of Fire alternate history series; Nebula-winning author Harry Turtledove; Jody Lynn Nye, co-author of the national best seller The Ship Who Won; Campbell Award-winner Wen Spencer, and many more, including the inimitable Esther Friesner herself, as fantasy adventure takes a turn for the lighter side. Contributors: Esther Friesner Jody Lynn Nye Jim C. Hines Elizabeth A. Vaughan Harry Turtledove Kerrie L. Hughes Steven Harper Piziks Wen Spencer Julie S. Mandala Esther Friesner Jean Rabe Alex Shvartsman Sarah A. Hoyt Robin Wayne Bailey Laura Resnick Lee Martindale P.C. Hodgell Dean Wesley Smith Laura Frankos Louisa Swann Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Series: Chicks in Chainmail Turn the Other Chick The Chick's in the Mail Chicks 'n Chained Males Chicks Ahoy Did You Say Chicks?! Chicks and Balances At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1625794037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
ORIGINAL ANTHOLOGY featuring rollicking, tongue-in-cheek tales of women warrior fighting against the stodgy and in the name of freedom of expression, Chicks in Chainmail style! Continuing a great tradition, Chicks and Balances is not what you might think (or it is what you think, depending on which way your mind runs). What we have here is a bunch of perfectly healthy women who happen to be of the brass-bra-wearing and chain-link bikinis sort. Each is fighting in her own way for the freedom to express herself--often by thrusting sword through a censor's black heart! Be glad, the chicks in chainmail are back, and they will not be oppressed, repressed, or depressed! All new adventures of fearless women warriors by Eric Flint, creator of the Ring of Fire alternate history series; Nebula-winning author Harry Turtledove; Jody Lynn Nye, co-author of the national best seller The Ship Who Won; Campbell Award-winner Wen Spencer, and many more, including the inimitable Esther Friesner herself, as fantasy adventure takes a turn for the lighter side. Contributors: Esther Friesner Jody Lynn Nye Jim C. Hines Elizabeth A. Vaughan Harry Turtledove Kerrie L. Hughes Steven Harper Piziks Wen Spencer Julie S. Mandala Esther Friesner Jean Rabe Alex Shvartsman Sarah A. Hoyt Robin Wayne Bailey Laura Resnick Lee Martindale P.C. Hodgell Dean Wesley Smith Laura Frankos Louisa Swann Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Series: Chicks in Chainmail Turn the Other Chick The Chick's in the Mail Chicks 'n Chained Males Chicks Ahoy Did You Say Chicks?! Chicks and Balances At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Judgmental Maps
Author: Trent Gillaspie
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250142695
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A sharp tongued and fierce witted full-color collection of maps of America’s greatest cities in all their brutally honest glory. Your City. Judged. When you move to a new city you look at a map to get you where you need to be, but a Google Map of San Francisco won’t tell you where you can get “Real Dim Sum” or where “The Worst Trader Joes Ever” is. Or if you’re visiting Chicago, you might want to see the Magnificent Mile, but not know it’s right next to where “Suburbanites Buy Drugs” and “Retired Mafioso.” This is where Judgmental Maps comes in – a no holds barred look at city life that is at once a love letter and hate mail from the very people who live there. What started as a joke between comedian Trent Gillaspie and his friends in Denver, quickly grew into a viral sensation with a rabid and enthusiastic community labeling maps of their cities with names and descriptions we all think of, but are a bit too shy to say out loud. Collected here in a full color, beautifully packaged book with all new, never before published material, Judgmental Maps is laugh out loud funny from New York to Los Angeles, Minneapolis to Atlanta and offending everyone else in between.
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250142695
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A sharp tongued and fierce witted full-color collection of maps of America’s greatest cities in all their brutally honest glory. Your City. Judged. When you move to a new city you look at a map to get you where you need to be, but a Google Map of San Francisco won’t tell you where you can get “Real Dim Sum” or where “The Worst Trader Joes Ever” is. Or if you’re visiting Chicago, you might want to see the Magnificent Mile, but not know it’s right next to where “Suburbanites Buy Drugs” and “Retired Mafioso.” This is where Judgmental Maps comes in – a no holds barred look at city life that is at once a love letter and hate mail from the very people who live there. What started as a joke between comedian Trent Gillaspie and his friends in Denver, quickly grew into a viral sensation with a rabid and enthusiastic community labeling maps of their cities with names and descriptions we all think of, but are a bit too shy to say out loud. Collected here in a full color, beautifully packaged book with all new, never before published material, Judgmental Maps is laugh out loud funny from New York to Los Angeles, Minneapolis to Atlanta and offending everyone else in between.
Kicking It
Author: Faith Hunter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451419006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Featuring stories by SHANNON K. BUTCHER * RACHEL CAINE * LUCIENNE DIVER * CHRIS MARIE GREEN * CHRISTINA HENRY * FAITH HUNTER * CHLOE NEILL * KALAYNA PRICE * ROB THURMAN New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine has modern-day potions witches Holly and Andrew facing off against a firebrand politician who wears literally killer boots in a Texas-sized rodeo of trouble. Boot-loving Cadogan vampire Lindsey must team up with off-again, on-again vampire partner Luc when a woman from her past is targeted by supernaturals in New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill’s all-new adventure. And New York Times bestselling author Rob Thurman features Trixa Iktomi from her Trickster series dealing with magical vengeance and magical footwear. Taking kick-ass urban fantasy literally, USA Today bestselling authors Kalayna Price and Faith Hunter bring together the best of the genre to once again prove when you’re fighting supernatural forces, it helps to keep your feet on the ground.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451419006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Featuring stories by SHANNON K. BUTCHER * RACHEL CAINE * LUCIENNE DIVER * CHRIS MARIE GREEN * CHRISTINA HENRY * FAITH HUNTER * CHLOE NEILL * KALAYNA PRICE * ROB THURMAN New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine has modern-day potions witches Holly and Andrew facing off against a firebrand politician who wears literally killer boots in a Texas-sized rodeo of trouble. Boot-loving Cadogan vampire Lindsey must team up with off-again, on-again vampire partner Luc when a woman from her past is targeted by supernaturals in New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill’s all-new adventure. And New York Times bestselling author Rob Thurman features Trixa Iktomi from her Trickster series dealing with magical vengeance and magical footwear. Taking kick-ass urban fantasy literally, USA Today bestselling authors Kalayna Price and Faith Hunter bring together the best of the genre to once again prove when you’re fighting supernatural forces, it helps to keep your feet on the ground.
Voyage of the Turtle
Author: Carl Safina
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429900865
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from our interventions, and teach us the lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans and its creatures. As Voyage of the Turtle, Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the astonishing leatherback turtle, whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, is in our hands. Writing with verve and color, Safina describes how he and his colleagues track giant pelagic turtles across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua, New Guinea. The only surviving species of its genus, family, and suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. In his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are finally playing a significant role in their survival. "Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal—and ample reasons to care." -- The Los Angeles Times
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429900865
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from our interventions, and teach us the lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans and its creatures. As Voyage of the Turtle, Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the astonishing leatherback turtle, whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, is in our hands. Writing with verve and color, Safina describes how he and his colleagues track giant pelagic turtles across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua, New Guinea. The only surviving species of its genus, family, and suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. In his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are finally playing a significant role in their survival. "Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal—and ample reasons to care." -- The Los Angeles Times
The Strip
Author: Stefan Al
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026233822X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026233822X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.
Crazy in the Blood
Author: Lucienne Diver
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
ISBN: 1614756090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The demigod detective is back to stop Dionysus and Hades from sending Los Angeles straight to hell in this “sharp and funny” urban fantasy (Christina Henry, author of the Black Wings series). An ill wind is blowing through LA—right through Tori Karacis’s door. Just a few weeks after she prevented rogue gods from blowing the city into the ocean, more dead bodies are turning up near the leftover crater . . . bodies that have been shredded by something too big to be, shall we say, of this world. Worse, her Uncle Christos has disappeared after stumbling onto a deadly cult masquerading as the Back-to-Earth movement. The connection: Dionysus. Yes, that Dionysus. He’s resurrected his bloody fertility rite, complete with frenzied female groupies who tear men limb from limb. And he’s won over Demeter, goddess of the harvest, by getting her daughter Persephone away from Hades for good. Predictably, Hades isn’t about to let Persephone go without a fight. Unless Tori finds a way to bring her back to him, Hades will abandon the gates of Tartarus. At which time all hell will, literally, break loose. Between saving the world, the woman, the cultists and her crazy uncle, Tori is giving up on getting to the beach before all the good spots are taken.
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
ISBN: 1614756090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The demigod detective is back to stop Dionysus and Hades from sending Los Angeles straight to hell in this “sharp and funny” urban fantasy (Christina Henry, author of the Black Wings series). An ill wind is blowing through LA—right through Tori Karacis’s door. Just a few weeks after she prevented rogue gods from blowing the city into the ocean, more dead bodies are turning up near the leftover crater . . . bodies that have been shredded by something too big to be, shall we say, of this world. Worse, her Uncle Christos has disappeared after stumbling onto a deadly cult masquerading as the Back-to-Earth movement. The connection: Dionysus. Yes, that Dionysus. He’s resurrected his bloody fertility rite, complete with frenzied female groupies who tear men limb from limb. And he’s won over Demeter, goddess of the harvest, by getting her daughter Persephone away from Hades for good. Predictably, Hades isn’t about to let Persephone go without a fight. Unless Tori finds a way to bring her back to him, Hades will abandon the gates of Tartarus. At which time all hell will, literally, break loose. Between saving the world, the woman, the cultists and her crazy uncle, Tori is giving up on getting to the beach before all the good spots are taken.