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A scandal in Battersea, Mercedes Lackey

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A scandal in Battersea

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Mercedes Lackey

Elemental masters, book twelveDAW book collectors, no. 1758

Christmas is a very special time of year. It is special for Psychic Nan Killian and Medium Sarah Lyon-White and their ward, Suki, who are determined to celebrate it properly. It is special for their friends, Doctor John Watson, and his wife Mary, both Elemental Masters, who have found great delight in the season seeing it through Suki's young eyes. It is also special to others...for very different reasons. For Christmas Eve is also hallowed to dark forces, powers older than mankind, powers that come awake on this long, cold night. Powers best left alone. Powers that could shake the foundation of London and beyond. It begins slowly. Women disappearing in the dark of night, women only missed by their own kind. The whispers only begin when they start to reappear - because when they do, they are no longer sane. And when Nan, Sarah, and the Watsons are colled on to examine these victims, they discover that it was no ordinary horror of the streets that drove them mindless. But then, the shadows reach for other victims - girls of good, even exalted families, who vanish from concerts, lectures, and fashionable shops. And it will take the combined forces of Magic, Psychic Powers, and the world's greatest detective to stop the darkness before it can conquer all

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