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MOON IN THE MIRROR
by P. R. Frost
DAW, September 2007
400 pages
$24.95
ISBN: 075640424X


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Tess Noncoire, widowed fantasy writer and member of the Sisterhood of the Celestial Blade Warriors, is just finishing her latest manuscript when a windstorm causes the resident ghosts in her old Cape Cod mansion to desert her, leaving just the howling wind raging outside. Her mother has gone to Florida and her familiar, an eight-inch high cigar-smoking gay imp, has also gone on holiday, leaving her alone with the Windago waiting for her outside – the one whose mate she had killed previously.

In the morning, her oldest friend and local detective Allie Engstrom calls for help. She tells Tess to bring MoonFeather, her aunt, who is also a witch, downtown. A naked woman, surrounded by garden gnomes with teeth, has just appeared in the street.

They manage to get her to Tess' house and find she is called WindScribe. She is a member of a coven, 12 of whom had disappeared 28 years before. MoonFeather was the 13th member of that same coven of Wiccans but she was young and her father refused to let her go out that night. Why did WindScribe appear and where are the rest of the women?

One of the ghosts that haunt the house is that of her dead husband Dill, who tries to get Tess to give up Scrap, her imp, and be with him. There are other men in her life, at least one of whom may be a half demon. And then her mother returns with a man she met on her holiday in Florida, who she wants to marry right away, and who turns out to be a full demon who wants Tess' historical house.

I never read the first book in the series but Frost gives enough away in this one to make it unnecessary. There's no sex to speak of but lots of cartoonish violence and Scrap, the imp, who must keep Tess alive because if she dies, so does he. Tess must be a very good writer in order to be able to keep a large historical house with outbuildings and extensive grounds on an unnamed bit of Cape Cod. Real estate is frightfully expensive there. But I do look forward to her further adventures. This is a fun book.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, August 2007

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