Their leap of faith could unleash magic ... or plunge them into darkness. Henry Thorn has worked at Larkin's since graduating high school. He likes it -- especially when he can use his secret skill of hiding inside shadows so his boss can't find them. Without that talent, he would never had survived growing up different. When a hire enters the store, Henry's other latent talent kicks in. He can smell an emotional response even before he lays eyes on the redhead. Jamey Currey came out, and his conservative parents promptly kicked him out. He, too, is different -- he senses Henry's attraction the moment they met. The first time they kiss, torrential rains fall from skies split by lightning. Their kiss also awakens the Watchers, diabolical hunters who will stop at nothing -- even extermination -- to keep magic suppressed. With the help of a friendly coven of friendly witches, the boys embark on a quest to discover an ancient key to restoring magic to the world, and to understand mysteries of their own hearts. The question is, will this quest cost them their lives?

The Werewolf and His Boy

The witch would have to die, too. As long as her kind stayed with their simple magicks, which most mundanes dismissed as craziness, they had been permitted to live.


Mundanes had seen the witch revealed: she had disclosed and made the disclosure of the Pet and the spawn all the more obvious. They should have been killed off centuries ago, the way that vampires had been.


Eliminating the Pet, the spawn, and the witch meant Ella would be allowed a kill, which gave her some satisfaction and something to look forward to—that, and rejuvenation in the caves. She hadn’t had the pleasure of a kill for years, and not at all in this persona. Her fangs and claws tingled and extended at the prospect. Their screams, the slashing, the biting, the warm, warm blood. The meat separating from bone, the beating heart in her hand—


Chapter 25