


He calls the police, but he has vowed to stay out of any more mysteries after being shot earlier in the year. But then a severed head arrives at the Emporium via courier. But he’s vowed to give Calvin a wedding, so he is pushing ahead. Seb is trying to plan his wedding – although he truly doesn’t know where to start and given that all the guidance seems to be geared to “brides” he’s as befuddled as ever. Sebastian and Max are minding their own business at the Emporium during the busy holiday season. But it’s not Sebastian who may become the next target-it’s Calvin. The clock is ticking to recover a long-lost artifact linked to paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope and to capture a murderer. Before Sebastian knows it, his closest friends and family are dragged into a series of horrific murders with antiquated clues hinting to the infamous Victorian American Bones Wars. Sebastian patently disregards the mystery of a lifetime because he is done with death and danger-but the killer escalates. Then Snow’s Antique Emporium receives a decapitated human head in the mail and the holidays are gory once again. Although Sebastian is now New York City’s best-known busybody, he’s done solving crimes and wants nothing more than to plan a romantic budget wedding. Patience, sanity, and their very lives have been put to the test, but love has persevered. It’s been a full year since the mystery that brought antique shop owner and part-time amateur sleuth Sebastian Snow together with NYPD homicide detective Calvin Winter.
