Bad Bargain
"Off the rack gives me hives." – Cordelia, "Out of Mind, Out of Sight"
The Scoobies are used to being personally affected when demonic nasties come to Sunnydale. And they're used to strange things happening at Sunnydale High – after all, the place is built over the Hellmouth. But they've sealed the Hellmouth, so they don't think anything's out of the ordinary when items to be sold at the first annual band fund-raising rummage sale are stored in the school basement... which, one might recall, is directly above that Hellmouth.
Once the rummage sale begins, it's clear the stuff for sale is far from ordinary. People seem to be strangely affected by the items they're buying – things from undemonic homes, donated by undemonic people. So the reactions these items are producing are, to say the least, unexpected. Willow's acting weird. So's Xander. And even Buffy's mom bought something...
The situation quickly spins out of control, and the school has to be quarantined... leaving Buffy and Giles to sort things out before whatever demon this is sells them down the river.
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Diana G. Gallagher
Diana G. Gallagher is an American author who writes books for children and young adults based on television series. She has contributed to book series based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Charmed, among others.
Born in 1946, in Paterson, New Jersey, she now lives in Florida with her husband, the writer Martin Burke. She sometimes also writes under the name Diana Burke.
Gallagher won a Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 1988 under the name Diana Gallagher Wu.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer consists of 25 total books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Main series Buffyverse
Related series The Willow Files
Related series Wicked Willow
Related series Slayer
