Circle of Desire

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Air hissed through the silence. Tendrils of smoke began to curl past the window seams, its colour sickly, luminous. Katherine Tanner tugged free one of the two white ash stakes strapped to her jeans and clenched it tight. On the opposite side of the room, a little girl slept on, oblivious to the smoky slivers of evil beginning to slip past the window. Kat hoped she remained unaware.

Remained asleep and alive.

But if Gwen's premonition was right — and her grandmother's premonitions usually were — this child would be the next to go missing. They'd done everything they could to prevent that. They'd nailed the windows shut, had cops patrolling close by, and warding stones had been placed around the child's bed to prevent any form of magic coming close.

But these wards weren't designed to stop evil itself — and that's what was seeping into this room tonight.

Her stomach began to churn. Though she'd spent the last ten years hunting the rogue elements of the supernatural community who preyed on humans, she'd never come across anything that went after kids the way this thing did.

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