Impractical Magic by Christine Pope

Author:Christine Pope [Pope, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BA
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
Published: 2016-04-22T22:00:00+00:00

10

The whole time he was driving from Tucson to Prescott, Colin couldn’t help berating himself. Not over calling in sick at work; he was about to start losing sick days anyway if he didn’t start using them. No, over the whole reason for this trip in the first place. Snooping around about Jenny’s family behind her back. Hadn’t he already played fast and loose enough with the truth? In a way, this mission only seemed to compound his sins.

But he couldn’t stop himself. Something very strange was going on with the McAllisters, and he had to know what it was. That same need to know had pushed him into journalism, even though a lot of people these days thought the profession was on its way out. And that need to know was probably going to get him into trouble now, but again…he couldn’t ignore the compulsion that was currently driving him.

He’d also tried doing a little snooping into Alex’s family, the de la Pazes, but they’d been in the Phoenix area — and then Tucson — for literally hundreds of years, dating back to before the time when the United States were even united. It would take the kind of work of someone researching a doctoral thesis to unravel all their tangled relationships and holdings, and so Colin had abandoned the task after a couple of wasted hours. The one thing he’d been able to determine was that there didn’t seem to be anything particularly out of the ordinary about Alex Trujillo, except that he’d managed to carry a double major and still graduate in four years. His parents had been married for almost thirty years and owned a thriving store, and his little sister was currently going to UA and majoring in biology. Absolutely nothing there to throw up any red flags, or to show that Alex possessed some kind of strange magical power that allowed him to shoot blue-white light out of his hands.

The whole thing was crazy-making, which was why Colin knew he couldn’t let it go.

He had decided that his first stop in Prescott should be the historical society, mainly because their records went back farther than the county recorder’s office and should — he hoped — provide more jumping-off points for further investigation. If he had time, he could go over to the county recorder’s office afterward.

Prescott took its history seriously. The historical society was housed in a converted Victorian house two blocks away from the town’s famous courthouse and surrounding park, and he’d been required to make an appointment.

The entire neighborhood was composed of Victorian and Craftsman-style homes, most of them immaculately restored. They didn’t look completely alien to Colin’s eyes, since there were houses like that clustered in the older parts of Tucson, even if they weren’t nearly as well kept up as the ones he saw when he got out of his car and locked it. Still, there seemed to be a weight of history here that he hadn’t ever experienced in

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