<p><strong><em>Father Winter is a malevolent ancient spirit. The veil between worlds really is thinnest on Halloween. Dragons exist, but they're just demons. And demigods walk the earth, protecting humanity from it all.</em></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><em>THE HUNTER ' HER GIRLFRIEND</em>: 2020.</strong> When Margot invited her new girlfriend Emili to meet her parents over Christmas, she should have realized that Father Winter might show up...and try to kill her.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>THE MAIDEN ' THE LIAR</em>: 1990.</strong> When a hunter fails to slay Father Winter, Poe's family holiday road trip is waylaid by the ensuing dangerous blizzard, and they're forced to take shelter in a highway rest stop. Thank goodness other teens are there, including a cute boy and his high school hockey team.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>THE HEALER ' THE HAMMER</em>: 1989.</strong> Nora's on the run for murder, hiding out at a hunter academy where famous Thom "The Hammer" is currently contracted to hunt and kill the Jersey Devil. A rare healer, she's assigned to his detail because the asshole is a f*ckin' demon magnet. Great.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Hunt Monsters, Do Magic, and Fall in Love</strong> is a triptych of modern fantasy stories interrelated by family-stories with myths and demons and ghosts (oh my), and with romance and secrets and lies (and someone dies).</em></p>