"I'm a demon. My name is Melusine. My comrades are Bashemath, who is female like myself, and Geminian, who is male. And just in case you were wondering, we didn't come from hell-if such a place exists at all..."

As the global crisis develops in the Twenty-First Century, a group of special "demon" researchers are sent from a parallel universe to embody themselves as humans and study the situation. However, in the midst of the operation, Wye-Wye, the youngest member of their team, is lost.

As she and her comrades do everything demonly possible to find him, Melusine, the team lead, is forced to do the unthinkable-employ the assistance of a "visie" (demon slang for human)-freelance journalist Paige Ballantyne.

Paige, however, gives Melusine much more to consider than just the mystery at hand as she becomes intrigued by the benefits of a "visie" life.

Together, the team must race the clock to find and bring back Wye-Wye before he can no longer regenerate. In an all-out cross-continent search, the team turns up much more than they bargained for in this urban fantasy mystery adventure.

Award winning author Marie Jakober graduated with honors from Ottawa's Carleton University. Jakober has written nine novels, including her forthcoming release, The Demon Left Behind, the third novel to be published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing.

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"...A Magical journey, set in a time when sorceress queens still lived in Europe's northern woods. The Black Chalice is a spellbinding tale..." — Riane Eisler, author
"The historical and mythological elements blend seamlessly, making The Black Chalice a must-read for fantasy connoisseurs." — Meridith Renwick, Quill and Quire
"This complex chronicle does much the same thing for medieval Germany that Marion Zimmer Bradley did for Arthurian England...captures the chaotic sense of medieval German politics, and the ultimate irony of waging war in the name of a god of peace." — Carolyn Cushman, Locus