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

Henry tore off what was left of his sweatshirt and then his jeans. Naked, he leapt for Jamey, his body changing as it arched through air.


The wolf landed at Jamey’s feet, and shoved its big head against him, putting its body between Jamey and everything else. Jamey felt it then, the electrical shock of contact, the connecting charge of both their magics. I didn’t lose the magic, I didn’t! He grabbed a tuft of the wolf’s fur as his body flared with a sudden bright, bright light, so bright that it stopped both the witch and the Watcher, the latter turning sharply to face the werewolf and the godling.


Jamey knew.When he and Henry touched each other, saved each other, he knewwhere and what the key was, and what they both had to do to turn it and open Loki’s lock. The veil had been lifted. His body remembered what it had always known.


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