On Saturday afternoon, Nikki Delany thought, "George Wilson, in the kitchen,with a blender." By dinner, she had killed George and posted his gory murder toher blog. The next day, she put on her mourning clothes and went out to meet herbest friend for lunch to discuss finding a replacement for her love interest.Nikki is a horror novelist. Her choice of career is dictated by an ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder that forces her to write stories of death and destruction.She can't control it, doesn't understand it, but can use it to make moneyanywhere in the world. Currently "anywhere" is in Japan, hiding from her motherwho sees Nikki's OCD as proof she's mentally unstable. But, Nikki's fragilepeace starts to fall apart when the police arrest her for the murder of anAmerican expatriate. Someone killed him with a blender. Reality starts tounravel around Nikki. She's attacked by a raccoon in a business suit. After aseries of blackouts, she’s accompanied by a boy that no one else can see,a boy who claims to be a god. Is she really being pursued by Japanese myths— or is she simply going insane? What Nikki does know for sure is that thebodies are piling up, her mother has arrived in Japan to lock her up for therest of her life — and her novels always end with everyone dead.The first entry in a new urban fantasy saga by Wen Spencer, the creator ofthe popular Tinker contemporary fantasy/SF series.