The Wayward Mage by Sara Hanover

The Wayward Mage by Sara Hanover

Author:Sara Hanover [Hanover, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DAW
Published: 2021-06-08T00:00:00+00:00


Finally, my dad, fully mentioned. My jaw dropped. Holy shit. Had my father summoned something?

CHAPTER TWENTY

WHO GOES THERE?

WHAT HAD HE done? What had I done? Had I put all this into motion?

I forgot to breathe for a long moment and then made a greedy gulp for air. This couldn’t be. Not right under our noses, more or less. Steptoe would surely have noticed the remnants of such an action, and the professor, too, and I couldn’t count Carter out. It might not have been recent, but it surely would have left a sign if a traumatic summoning had happened in this old house. Surely.

Wouldn’t it have?

Would the summoned one have stayed here before making a break for the outside world? And if it had happened, they would have acted upon it. Perhaps even ending it, and I would never have spent those hellish last months in high school, and Mom . . .

No. I couldn’t think that we would have been saved, because the past was past. No changing it. And we’d made it through, hadn’t we? More or less intact? In some ways, better than we’d been before. My mother and I trusted each other truly and deeply, bonded by adversity and blood, and we were all right.

Only my father suffered unspeakably. I couldn’t believe that he deserved it.

I bent over the journal again, reading as swiftly as I could, taking care not to skim if I could help it. I ran across Devian’s name and stopped, reading the sentence several times to see if the silver-eyed, deadly elf was the name I sought.

No. Mortimer’s entry dismissed him as little more than a devious, back-dealing personage to be watched carefully for the future. That future, I thought, had bothered me quite a bit, but it had taken Devian a few decades to get there.

And then, thirty pages and nearly two decades beyond the torn page, I came across a new personage.

Nicolo.

I leaned close to the pages.

Vampire. A master of centuries, hidden under our noses, and yet as woven into the fabric of Richmond and its Virginian environs as any being can be. We will have to root him out very cautiously. Nicolo is magic incarnate, wrapped in spells and wards that defy decryption. His instinct for survival and cruelty is vast. He protects and stokes the prejudices of old, to his advantage. There are few vampires and fewer alive who have studied them successfully and can be consulted. All I can do is watch, wait, and learn . . . and pray no one breathes his name. Devian is said to be one of his puppets. And then along came John Graham Andrews, up to his neck in debt and desperation.



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