The Ring Around the Rose
by David P. Maurer
Book one of a series that intertwines the lives of a sarcastic chain smoker who may or may not be god, an immortal hero with second thoughts, a bag lady who thinks she's a Valkyrie, a dysfunctional dwarf from Brooklyn, a modern-day wizard with delusions of grandeur, a hotsy totsy princess, and a washed up plumbing supply salesman to save the world from a plot to end mankind before climate change, a meteor collision, or bad grammar do it first.
