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Readers will learn interesting and historical facts about the San Francisco Cable Cars, like when they began operation and how they are used today.

Aveda's finally being forced to deal with fallout from her diva behavior, and the fact that she's been a less than stellar friend to Evie. Or that Scott Cameron, the man Aveda's loved for nearly a decade, is suddenly giving her the cold shoulder. Or that the city has been demon-free for three months. Now Aveda is without the one thing she craves most in life: a mission. When Evie gets engaged and drafts Aveda as her maid-of-honor, she sets out on a single-minded mission to make sure Evie has the most epic wedding ever. Despite the supernatural evil that's been attacking brides-to-be.

A murder at the Blue Dragon, a small apartment building in San Francisco's Chinatown, prompts the absentee owner to hire Chinese American Peter Strand to calm the anxious tenants. But Strand isn't exactly what he appears to be. Neither are the tenants, who on the surface seem to be regular people going about their lives. Strand, a forensic accountant by trade, doesn't intend to investigate the murder, but he soon realizes that this isn't a gang-related killing, as the police believe. The murder was committed by one of the tenants.