Stone of Destiny

If encountering a warrior woman on horseback, complete with chain mail, animal hides, and sword, menacing a red-clad leprechaun in a top hat and carrying a magic lantern didn’t blow Sean Regan’s mind-a former police detective recently busted down to patrol-the giant, bloodthirsty, attacking vulture that disappeared into a gigantic puff of smoke certainly did.

Add to that a series of bizarre murders-bodies whose very souls were sucked from them like a vacuum-those freaky October snow storms, a deadly search for an ancient Celtic artifact called Lia Fáil that could determine the fate of this world-and Others-depending on who possesses it, and oh yeah, a killing spree by what just might be a pesky vampire on the loose, all leave Regan’s grasp on reality tenuous at best.

Crap like that doesn’t happen in modern day Boston. Does it?