title: Singer in the Snow
author:  Louise Marley 
description: All that timeless magic and wisdom is just as powerful in Marleys latestan instant classic. -- <i>Paul Goat Allen, Explorations</i><br /><br />SF with a fantasy feel very much in the style of Anne McCaffrey . . . Involving. -- <i>Locus</i>
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  SNOW JOB  
  
  CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS
  
  Copyright June 2012  
  
  Everyone wondered why a Sin City bigwig like Christophe performed twice
  nightly as “Cocaine” with his own rock band at his Inferno Hotel venue. That
  was like “the Donald” leading a fifties doo-wop group nightly at the Trump Las
  Vegas, although that very thought was more shuddersome than a pack of feral
  zombies invading a tea party.
  
  Everyone was dying to know, in a 2013 Vegas packed with supernatural moguls,
  just what flavor of paranormal the Seven Deadly Sins’ lead singer, Christophe,
  aka Cocaine, aka Snow, was. Rumor whispered that he was an albino vampire, but
  Snow maintained that was way off base.
  
  Except for the albino part, obviously.
  
  One night between shows, the rock-star mogul stepped firmly out of character.
  
  “Get me Delilah Street,” Snow told his security chief, Grizelle, even though
  he knew that the formidable shapeshifter hated Delilah Street almost as much
  as Delilah Street claimed to hate him.
  
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