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

“But I don’t know how to use a sword,” Jamey protested as the green man handed him the bright silvery blade.


“He did; the one before you, your ancestor. His cells recorded what he learned; you bear those cells. He battled monsters…


Jamey stood at the top of a green hill. He was six and at school; his teacher had sent him to retrieve a left-behind dodge ball, which he could see, bright yellow, at the far edge of the empty playground. He had started running and running and the wind had caught him or he had caught the wind and for one supreme moment, he was riding the wind: he was flying.


I wasn’tdreaming. Mama tried to make believe that I was; she got mad at me and yelled and yelled and yelled.


His mother yelled at him: put that thing down. Put it down now.Jamey was eight and playing in his room with a stick sword he had made. A lamp lay broken on the floor; he had scratched a long line on the wall. Shards of light were mixed with shards of glass.


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