{"product_id":"discount-armageddon-9780756420055","title":"Discount Armageddon","description":"\u003cb\u003eFirst book in \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The only thing more fun than an October Daye book is an InCryptid book.\" --\u003cb\u003eCharlaine Harris\u003c\/b\u003e, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of Sookie Stackhouse series \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCryptid, noun\u003c\/b\u003e Any creature whose existence has not yet been proven by science. See also \"Monster.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrytozoologist, noun\u003c\/b\u003e Any person who thinks hunting for cryptids is a good idea. See also \"idiot.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity--and humanity from them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance. Sounds pretty simple, right? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt would be, if it weren't for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos supermodels, and the trained monster-hunter sent by the Price family's old enemies, the Covenant of St. George. When a Price girl meets a Covenant boy, high stakes, high heels, and a lot of collateral damage are almost guaranteed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo complicate matters further, local cryptids are disappearing, strange lizard-men are appearing in the sewers, and someone's spreading rumors about a dragon sleeping underneath the city...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeanan McGuire \u003c\/b\u003eis a Washington State-based author with a strong penchant for travel and can regularly be found just about anyplace capable of supporting human life (as well as a few places that probably aren't). Early exposure to a vast number of books left her with a lifelong affection for the written word, and led, perhaps inevitably, to her writing books of her own, starting somewhere around the age of eleven. The \u003ci\u003eOctober Daye \u003c\/i\u003enovels are her first urban fantasy series, and the \u003ci\u003eInCryptid\u003c\/i\u003e novels are her second series, both published by DAW and both of which have put her in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller list. Seanan was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; \u003ci\u003eRosemary and Rue\u003c\/i\u003e, the first novel in the \u003ci\u003eOctober Daye \u003c\/i\u003eseries, was named one of the Top 20 Paranormal Fantasy Novels of the Past Decade; and her novel \u003ci\u003eFeed\u003c\/i\u003e, written under the name Mira Grant, was named as one of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly's \u003c\/i\u003eBest Books of 2010. She also won a Hugo for her podcast, and is the first person to be nominated for five Hugo Awards in a single year. You can visit her at www.seananmcguire.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Daw Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183255355666,"sku":"9780756420055","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c0eca866-719c-476f-8861-f6c49b028500.jpg?v=1749039455","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/discount-armageddon-9780756420055","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}