Disco Witches of Fire Island

In the summer of 1989, Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie take seasonal jobs on Fire Island Pines, the gay resort community known for its hedonism. Joe wants to cut loose after losing his boyfriend to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the island promises a chance to try.

Two older house cleaners, Howie and Lenny, welcome the friends in. Joe senses something odd about them and begins to suspect they are involved in the otherworldly. He is right. Howie and Lenny belong to a secret coven of disco witches whose job is to protect the island, and young men like Joe, from the tragedies tearing through their community.

The coven is in trouble. So many of its witches have died in the epidemic that its protective powers have been badly weakened. Joe knows none of this. He is busy falling for a bisexual ferryman who has webbed feet and can hold his breath underwater for an unusual length of time.

Joe's hopes of finding love are complicated by his own past and by a mysterious, handsome man he keeps glimpsing around the island. Howie and Lenny warn that the stranger may be a harbinger of doom. To save Joe and the island from the Great Darkness, the witches must find help quickly.

The book is a supernatural comedy-drama with a romance at its center. It mixes camp humor and fantasy with grief over the AIDS crisis.