Tom Weston is the author of the Alex and Jackie Adventure - First Night. He's written other stuff, but it wasn't successful, so he'd rather not talk about it. He's currently working on the second Alex and Jackie Novel - The Elf of Luxembourg - which should hit the stores sometime in 2009, if Alex doesn't get bored with it first.

Synopsis: And to drink? asked the waitress.
I ll have a beer, if I may? replied Sarah.
Can I see some ID please? asked the waitress. Sorry, but we have to check.
She s just joking, interrupted Alex. She'll have some water, like us.
Surely, you are not going to drink the water? asked Sarah. This world differed so greatly from her world, but even these people must know the danger of drinking the water?
Yes, why not?
Do you want to die of the colic or worms of the brain?
We have something called sanitation now, sniped Alex. If you d had it in the seventeenth century, you might still be alive.
Or dead! offered Jackie.
Or dead, yes, absolutely, amended Alex.

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Alexandra O Rourke, aged 16, is not a happy camper. It's New Year's Eve. She should be partying in San Diego with her friends, but instead she is stuck in Boston, with just her younger sister, Jackie, for company. As if that wasn t bad enough, she is being haunted by Sarah, the ghost of a seventeenth century Puritan. Oh, and there is the small matter of the charge of witchcraft to be sorted out.

Armed only with big shiny buttons and a helping of Boston Cream Pie, the sisters set out to restore the Natural Order. Can Alex solve the mystery of the Devil s Book? Can Jackie help Sarah beat the sorcery rap? And can they do it before the fireworks display at midnight? Because this is First Night - and this is an Alex and Jackie Adventure.

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