When Seamus O'Donnell returns to his Massachusetts hometown for Samhain, or Halloween as his neighbors like to call it, he has a bone to pick with someone.<br><br>At twenty-six, with a career on Wall Street, life was looking up for him until cancer attacked. Now, on that night when the veil is thin between the dead and those who aren't dead, feeling he has nothing to lose, Seamus summons up the one thing nobody wants to see.<br><br>To Seamus's surprise, he doesn't get an ugly skeleton in a dark robe, but rather something quite handsome. When it misunderstands something Seamus says in anger, the being makes Seamus a proposition he just can't refuse.

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“I love you too. If I overcome this, I’ll be


excited. Send tonight’s energy, all of it, to me. But for now,” he


hesitated, “let me be. I need to find my way, whichever way that


goes. Thank you for your guidance. May the ancestors guide me as I


see their wisdom on the night that is their night, on the night


when the veil between the worlds is thin.”


The room was silent, and finally, Susanna


spoke. Seamus could hear his father join in as his parents spoke in


“May the ancestors guide you.”  TWO


Seamus left the kitchen unsure of what to do. He took


the stairwell from the kitchen to the second floor. The hall was


long with lots of rooms on each side. He remembered the history of


the house. Somewhere, along the time of the craziness in Salem,


when people who were not his people were being hanged, the few


people in Salem who were of Seamus’s faith left Salem and the


nearby towns, scared that they might be discovered for who they


Chapter 4