A Lightbringer Carol: A Holiday Tale of Metamor City

By Chris Lester

Janus Starson, regional commander of the Lothanasi, takes his job VERY seriously. As the agency tasked with shielding mortals from supernatural threats, the Lothanasi do their best to keep anything dangerous from crossing over between the Dreamlands and the physical realm. But when it comes to the Holly King -- also known as Saint Nicholas, the Faery Lord of the Yuletide -- Janus and his people have their work cut out for them. For Janus, stopping St. Nick's incursions has become an obsession; for the Lothanasi as a whole, it's an embarrassment. After a particularly humiliating confrontation with the Sidhe Lord, Janus is forcibly placed on leave the next time the Yuletide rolls around.

But just because Janus is off duty doesn't mean that the supernatural realm is going to leave him be. Quite unexpectedly, Janus is visited by the ghost of his father -- a tormented creature with a chilling message for his son: unless he heeds the lessons that the spirit world wishes to teach him, he is doomed to join his father in an eternity of bondage.

Written in the spirit and tradition of Charles Dickens' Christmas classic, A LIGHTBRINGER CAROL takes Janus and the reader on a voyage of discovery through Metamor City's past, present and future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Lester
• Release date: Jul 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301649273

Chris Lester

Chris Lester has been telling stories for about as long as he can remember, and credits a writing contest in elementary school for introducing him to his muse. Trained as a biologist at the University of California-Santa Cruz, he received his master’s degree in 2004. He worked as a science teacher in California for several years, and is now a microbiologist at a drug research organization in Madison, Wisconsin.As the creator of The Metamor City Podcast (www.metamorcity.com), Chris has twice won the prestigious Parsec Award for excellence in speculative podcast fiction: once in 2009 for Best Long Form Audio Drama and again in 2010 for Best Short Form Audio Drama. In 2015 Chris debuted a new weekly podcast, The Raven and the Writing Desk, where he continues to bring his fiction to the world.

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