Having Jesse home again is the only reason Gideon Keel needs to celebrate.  But their private party at Sangre screeches to a premature halt when their home is raided, Dominique is taken by Children's Services, and Jesse's counterpart is arrested.  Meanwhile, Emma's case has been reopened, but that is only the beginning of the fallout.<br><br>Jesse and Gideon must draw new boundaries for their relationship, deal with new rules and expectations in their lives, and stay one step ahead of Foster, the immortal who will stop at nothing to destroy Jesse before he can take his place as a proper Guardian.

The Age of Retribution

Jesse wasn’t exactly tired—he knew he wouldn’t be able to fall asleep—but he felt like he had been picked up by a giant and twisted and squeezed and wrung out until every drop of energy dripped out of him. Traveling through dimensions with Michelle hadn’t been easy. He could still feel that horrible rift, growing gradually. Maybe no more than a centimeter a year, but growing all the same. Maybe he had felt it from the moment Michelle had made him a Guardian, but he only now realized it. And when he closed his eyes, he saw that girl, begging her lover for mercy. Foster had been ready to watch her writhe and burn, watch her scream, watch her melt and turn into ash.


Chapter 44