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    Plus-One

    By Barbara Hambly

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    Sequel to the Windrose series. A Las Vegas hotel is haunted by a trans-dimensional being which has started randomly killing the hotel’s guests. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton are hired to investigate, and discover there are not one trans-dimensional being, but two: one of them criminal, the other insane. They must figure out what these are, and how to get rid of them, without being killed themselves.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara Hambly
    Release dateJun 28, 2015
    ISBN9781311732644
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    Barbara Hambly

    Since her first published fantasy in 1982 - The Time of the Dark - Barbara Hambly has touched most of the bases in genre fiction. She has written mysteries, horror, mainstream historicals, graphic novels, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, romances, and Saturday Morning Cartoons. Born and raised in Southern California, she attended the University of California, Riverside, and spent one year at the University of Bordeaux, France. She married science fiction author George Alec Effinger, and lived part-time in New Orleans for a number of years. In her work as a novelist, she currently concentrates on horror (the Don Simon Ysidro vampire series) and historical whodunnits, the well-reviewed Benjamin January novels, though she has also written another historical whodunnit series under the name of Barbara Hamilton.Professor Hambly also teaches History part-time, paints, dances, and trains in martial arts. Follow her on Facebook, and on her blog at livejournal.com.Now a widow, she shares a house in Los Angeles with several small carnivores.

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      Plus-One - Barbara Hambly

      PLUS-ONE

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      Published by Barbara Hambly at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Barbara Hambly

      Cover art by Eric Baldwin

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      Plus One

      About The Author

      The Further Adventures

      PLUS-ONE

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      Who’s that? Antryg Windrose nodded toward the Hotel Della Robbia’s all-you-can-stand-to-eat pasta-bar, which was barely visible amid a feeding-frenzy of college students who seemed to think that Velveeta Alfredo actually constituted food.

      Who’s what? Joanna Sheraton craned her neck and stood on tip-toe. All very well for Antryg to ask the question: in addition to being the Archmage of the Council of Wizards (in another universe, he would hasten to explain) he was six feet three inches tall and could look over the heads of most crowds. I assume the question is rhetorical? There’s people here from all over the western half of the United States. At not-quite five feet and limited to the perceptions available in America in the mid-1980s, she didn’t feel qualified to give an opinion.

      Then she caught a glimpse through the jostling backs of the some five hundred would-be successors to Bruce Lee gathered in the Venezia Room and said, You’re right— though Antryg had expressed no opinion to be right about.

      She knew what he meant.

      The man had no business there.

      He could have just wandered in from the Casino… But it wasn’t that and she knew it.

      Something about the man at the pasta-bar lifted the hair on the nape of her neck.

      And she had no idea what.

      She made a move in the direction of the buffet, and Antryg laid a hand, very gently, on her shoulder: Don’t. Behind the thick-lensed spectacles, a shadow crossed those daft gray eyes that told her that whatever bothered her about the freeloader, it bothered him a great deal more. So she headed laterally in the direction of Sensei McKie, a Shotokan instructor from San Bernardino, California who for all his tough-guy swagger had an appetite for gossip that Joanna hadn’t encountered since Middle School.

      Antryg moseyed after her, but she noticed he kept his eye on the interloper – whoever the hell he was.

      And there wasn’t, she reflected, anything visibly amiss about the man.

      Obviously he didn’t belong in a roomful of participants in the Western Regional All-Schools Martial Arts Tournament. Even shlubby out-of-shape senseis like Gordy Sumter – bawling unsolicited opinions about Madonna’s breasts to a couple of the local Las Vegas Tae Kwan Do boys – still moved and stood like someone who could take out an enemy if he really had to. Mr. Freeloader, though taller than average, had the pear-shaped softness of a sedentary businessman, and wore a metallic-gray suit and narrow, pale-blue tie, at odds with the student jeans, parachute pants, and sweats that surrounded him.

      Who’s that guy? she asked McKie, when she came up to him. He looks familiar and I can’t place him, but I don’t think he’s in karate…

      McKie followed her nod, shook his head dismissively, then did a very slight double-take and looked again. A frown pulled the long, tufted red eyebrows together. Something bothered him, too. But he said, He looks like he’s just out for free food. We got plenty here.

      There is nothing in this room, replied Joanna loftily, "that qualifies as food," and that got her a white, wicked grin.

      I’ll keep an eye on him.

      She turned around in time to see Antryg drifting toward the end of the buffet, where Mr. Freeloader stood chowing down his plateful of penne and bow-tie pasta with three assorted glops of varying colors, and – cautiously, for reasons she couldn’t quite explain – she moved to follow.

      But the next time she looked, the man was gone.

      ***

      Did he leave? She rejoined Antryg beside the ballroom’s main door.

      He shook his head. Generally her housemate’s amiable other-worldliness was no different than thousands of burned-out over-age hippies in Southern California – even with a relatively respectable cotton button-up shirt instead of his usual flaking rock-band t-shirt, he wore several strings of brightly-colored beads and a pair of rhinestone earrings that would have embarrassed Zsa Zsa Gabor. When he would explain, earnestly, that he was a wizard in another universe, hiding out

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