The room was growing crowded. First a whole slew of coven members arrived, ours and theirs, faces I'd never seen before mixed with the most familiar. Quaid mentioned Odette brought family with her. I wondered where she'd been keeping them.

Celeste and James arrived shortly after Erica and the Vegas. Martin and Louisa looked longingly at Quaid from time to time. They sweet couple I'd always adored had taken the ungrateful wretch in and treated him as their own after the ...