In a fantastical tale set in the world of the critically acclaimed Unquenchable Fire, Ellen Pierson experiences a fateful, world-changing encounter with a Malignant One. In an America where magical rituals and charms work, Ellen Pierson experiences a fateful, world-changing encounter with a Malignant One When I was fourteen, a cousin of mine angered a Malignant One. It was a big case, a genuine scandal. Maybe you remember it. At the time, when it ended, I just wanted to forget about the whole thing. But a couple of years have passed and I guess maybe its time to think about it again.Thus begins Ellen Piersons story of how she helped her cousin Paul contend with the Malignant One running a temp agency in the office building where he worked.Ellens story is a bright and moving tale set in the same fabulous, fantastic America as that of Rachel Pollacks award-winning Unquenchable Fire. Funny and frantic, poignant and powerful, Temporary Agency is an enduring fable from a writer whose work, in the words of Orson Scott Card, like a river in flood, resists the well-channeled ways, cutting its own channel through the fictional terrain.
