Esther Diamond
DAW
November 2012
On Sale: November 6, 2012
400 pages ISBN: 0756407338 EAN: 9780756407339 Kindle: B007P7HVQM Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
In the days leading up to Christmas, and in accordance with
the rituals of a religion which is not her own, struggling
actress Esther Diamond is working as a singing-and-dancing
elf at Fenster & Co, a major Manhattan department store.
Meanwhile, Detective Lopez, Esther's former
almost-boyfriend, is investigating a series of mob-related
truck hijackings of Fenster's costly merchandise. Lucky
Battistuzzi, a semi-retired hit man in the Gambello crime
family, is also investigating the thefts, since the
Gambellos, who didn't commit the robberies, are being
inconveniently implicated in these events.
Esther becomes aware of mysterious and alarming events at
Fenster's, quite apart from lurking wiseguys, squabbling
shoppers, and half-naked elves. Alerted to her concerns, her
friend Dr. Maximillian Zadok, Manhattan's resident mage,
soon suspects that Evil is afoot in the crowded department
store.Before long, Max and Esther realize that the famous
shopping mecca has become the planned staging ground for the
rebirth of a voracious ancient demon that's plotting to take
advantage of the winter solstice, when darkness prevails, to
escape its amorphous mystical prison and commence a reign of
terror in New York City.
Can Max and Esther protect their city, save Detective Lopez
from a sex-starved ancient entity, and survive
Christianity's most exhausting holiday?
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