Chapter 25

Eislinn crawled on her hands and knees along the hedge of the Mt. Airy estate with her digital video camera tucked carefully into the pocket of her hooded sweatshirt. With her Fae glamour in place, she was unlikely to be seen if the pseudo-coven was full of human wanna-bes but on the off chance that one of them really was magic, she stuck to the shadows.

As she closed in on the bonfire, her eyes took in the black hooded robes of the participants, the black and red candles and the very naked young man who stood at the point of the inverted pentagram outlined with what was probably table salt. Her informant had been correct. Leading the ritual was golden boy and Philadelphia home-town hero Jason Whitbeck, now the star quarterback for an Ivy League university. Apparently he was bored while home on summer vacation.