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

“I need something she probably doesn’t want me to have,” Jesse added.


Dominique’s tiny hand squeezed his reflexively as they appeared in the store, and he caught her slight sway as her equilibrium found itself again. To her credit, though, she didn’t whine about teleporting nearly as much as Gideon did. Jesse figured she probably thought of it as one big roller coaster ride, compressed into the space of a single second.


“It has been too long since I done a decent B&E.” Dominique looked around the store with a keen eye, the darkness nearly enveloping her. “This something she wants to hide, something she wants to sell, or something else entirely?”


“Probably just something she wants to hide. Did Grace tell you that she wrote a paper about the hurlbat?”


Chapter 59