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Mag stiffened her backbone before glancing up at the slight movement on the third-floor window: A woman, really only a shadow, stood behind the sheer flowing drapes. Mag felt the intense hatred of the glaring face. Shyly lowering her gaze, Mag realized the maid Dansie already hated her too. It had to be Dansie, for Joe said they were the only females there. Thoughts ran through her mind, "Just run, girl," as she hesitated to step up onto the porch. After that step she was obligated to go inside; but east to west, there are woods all around calling to her.

When Ava the Dragon's Daughter finds an orphaned fae burned and covered in wood ashes in a swine pen, she quickly takes in the baby as her own. Each day Fae's powers emerge letting Ava know that her adopted daughter is no ordinary fairy. Swenson Castle is the place Fae is destined to live, for there, under Freya's army's protection, she will live to inherit her powers to defeat her many enemies.

Life at Paradise Plantation is full of hazards in 1886, just as expected on any working ranch. This is why Tilley decided to move to Charleston and study medicine, thus following in the footsteps of her uncle Grayson Clark. Then, just when it seems her life is charmed, she breaks her leg riding a stubborn stallion, so her plans are suddenly out of reach. That is, unless her twin, Faith, can be persuaded to go with her. Then Faith agrees to take classes for Tilley, who is bucking authority in her classes.

Freya's Army is growing in Norway and at her North American base in Virginia as Millison's five brothers go there to live as their father abandons them. Leah's daughter Shay has adjusted to her new life in Norway finally, after a rough first year of adjusting to life as an immortal. The family business is expanding, and it adds new challenges to the already hectic Swenson castle. All the while everyone is aware to be "careful what they ask for".

The train ride was going to be the first trip the twins had ever taken. Tilley and Faith Hall had just met their absentee father, Tillis Grasdon, a few weeks before; now they are going to live with him and his mother, Agnes. They have their new clothes in new suitcases, for their life of extreme poverty had never afforded them anything new until now. With promises of the finest schools and a better life in Roanoke, Virginia, they leave their mother, Marcie Hall, and Wilmington, NC, behind them.

It would be just another beautiful day in the Deep South, if you were not a slave. Off in the distance, the Whip-poor-will is softly singing, lying to everyone, like all is right with the world. How can it be so happy when a child is lying naked in the hay, while its very young mother, covered in blood, is worried she will be killed for having him? What if Madam Tibbs found her child, the very blonde heir to Tibb's Plantation? The hanging trees in the woods are calling her name, "Lucinda, come float from my branches, sweetmeat, for you girl, have blasphemed God and your Master Tibbs."