Hired by the Weststead family to find their abducted daughter Abilene, Manny Furukawa applies all his skills as an oracle/private investigator to retrieve the kidnapped child. What begins as a routine missing person's investigation quickly deteriorates into a nightmarish game of cat and mouse with a mysterious fiend responsible for a series of child abductions. Plagued by horrific visions Manny tries to distance himself from the uncompromising villainy of the child thief, but the ancient goddesses of Norse mythology-the Norns-are far from finished with Furukawa. Hunted by the fiend, Manny attempts to turn the tables on the child abductor before he can strike again.Dark and unflinching, The Fiend-Charm City: Book 1, reveals a hidden world of gods, monsters, and unquenchable human greed.