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Stealing the Elf-King's Roses

by Diane Duane · 2002

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In an alternate-world Los Angeles, prosecutor/psychic Lee Enfield and her partner, Gelert, investigate the murder of an elf. They soon reveal a deadly network of ties among organized crime, multinational corporations, and planetary governments of the Seven Worlds—all working together on the "ethnic cleansing" of elves from the alternate world of Alfheim. Original.

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Themes
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Audience
young adult
Length
long · 401 pages

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