By Shirley Damsgaard
Small-town librarian Ophelia Jensen is ultimately beginning to include her lot as one of many "chosen"—a psychic and people magick practitioner, a.k.a. a witch. professional loving information from her magickally adept grandmother Abby helps—and adopting Tink, an incredibly proficient teenage medium, has given Ophelia's lifestyles new objective . . . until eventually a brutal homicide clouds the light in their days. Ophelia's co-worker and ally, Darci, is distraught whilst her cousin is implicated within the small Iowa city of Summerset's newest murder—the violent loss of life of a biker. regrettably for Darci's cousin, it really is her fingerprints all around the homicide weapon. She claims she's blameless, yet it will take Ophelia and Abby greater than a great incantation or to unravel this crime—what with ghosts, crooked law enforcement officials, mystery identities, and a small military of outlaw bikers thrown into this devil's brew.
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I slapped my hand on the bar. “Exactly. ” Ned raised an eyebrow. ” “See—and that’s not right. ” Ned gave me a playful poke in the arm. “You’d better not let Darci see your irritation, Slugger. ” “Okay, okay,” I muttered. ” “Smart girl,” he said with another poke. “I heard you’ve been vocal about Summerset’s latest residents,” I said with a jerk toward the pool table. Ned’s playful tone disappeared. ” With a shake of his head, he frowned. ” “’Fraid so,” he replied, and took a sip of his beer. I laid my hand on his arm.
For what? I looked over at the clock. Too late for lunch. Too early for dinner. Whatever. All I knew was I needed food. As I cracked the eggs and whipped them in the bowl, Tink’s words pecked at me. Was it my responsibility to help Darci? In the past, Abby had guided me in decisions like that. She’d pointed the way with her insight. ” Not a very helpful statement. What did my own intuition tell me? Not much, I thought wryly. Did my lack of inspiration mean I should sit this one out? Or had the signs been there and I’d missed them?
I felt a rush of adrenaline, a rush of fear. ” I grabbed Darci’s arm as she reached for the light switch. “We need to—” The sudden images cascading through my head stopped my words. Becca laughing. Becca and the biker stumbling toward the bed. I fought the images. I didn’t want to watch the scene unfolding in my mind. They faded, only to rush back with the force of a tidal wave. I staggered and would have fallen if I hadn’t been clutching Darci’s arm in a desperate grip. She grabbed my shoulder to steady me.