<p>Tess Noncoiré, bestselling fantasy author and warrior of the Celestial Blade, wants nothing more than a couple weeks of solitude to finish the book that was due... yesterday. Mom has removed herself to sunny Florida to visit relatives leaving Tess alone. A winter storm isolates the writer in her rambling and creaking colonial era home.</p><p>But Tess's life suddenly explodes. The universe dumps on her Garden gnomes with teeth, a naked girl appearing out of nowhere in an ice storm, and a widowed Wendigo haunts Tess.</p><p>She suddenly has monsters and murders and a house full of people in her lap, including Mom's return with a shaping-changing demon for a new fiancé. Worst of all she has no idea how to handle, or separate the two rivals for her heart before they kill each other.</p><p>What's an author to do when her life is more fantastic than her fiction?</p>