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03055aam a2200397Mi 4500 001 404F4DA64A4B11EFB3E903CE3AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240725010042 008 231112s2024 oru 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9798212015547 035 $a (OCoLC)1409031225 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d OCLCO $d BDX $d AZH $d CCPLG $e rda $d OCLCO $d JIU $d SILO 100 1 $a Neff, Henry H. 245 14 $a The witchstone / $c Henry H. Neff. 250 $a First edition 264 1 $a Ashland, OR : $b Blackstone Publishing, $c 2024. 300 $a 462 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell's least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black monolith. It's a sexy enough assignment--colonial origins, mutating victims, et cetera--but Laszlo has no interest in maximizing the curse's potential; he'd rather sunbathe in Ibiza, quaff martinis, and hustle the hustlers on Manhattan's subway. Unfortunately, his division has new management, and Laszlo's ratings are so abysmal that he's given six days to shape up or he'll be melted down and returned to the Primordial Ooze. Meet Maggie Drakeford, nineteen-year-old Curse Bearer. All she's ever known is the dreary corner of the Catskills where the Drakeford Curse has devoured her father's humanity and is rapidly laying claim to her own. The future looks hopeless, until Laszlo appears at the Drakeford farmhouse one October night and informs them that they have six days--and six days only--to break the spell before it becomes permanent. Can Maggie trust the glib and handsome Laszlo? Of course not. But she also can't pass up an opportunity to save her family, even if it means having a demon as a guide ... Thus begins a breakneck international adventure that takes our unlikely duo from a hot dog stand in Central Park to the mountains of Liechtenstein, a five-star hotel in Zurich, and even the time-traveling vault of a demonic crime boss. As the clock ticks down, tough-as-nails Maggie and conniving Laszlo will uncover a secret so profound that what began as a farcical quest to break a curse will eventually threaten the very Lords of Hell." - (dust jacket) 650 0 $a Fantasy fiction. 650 0 $a Occultism $v Fiction. 651 0 $a United States $v Fiction, $e Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) $e Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) 651 0 $a Midtown Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Blessing and cursing $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Cursed objects $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Liechtenstein $v Fiction. 650 0 $a City and town life $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Demonology $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Wit and humor $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Flaneurs $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Slackers $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Action and adventure fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240803011040.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240725010725.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=404F4DA64A4B11EFB3E903CE3AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search