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by Jane Toombs

CENTURIES BEFORE THE FIRST WHITE MAN SET FOOT ON MOUNT SANGRE, THE ANCIENT ONES WARNED THAT SOMETHING SLEPT THERE, SOMETHING UNSPEAKABLY EVIL,,,AND YET, ONE TERRIBLE NIGHT, THAT EVIL WAS AWAKENED BY INNOCENTS TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR SECRET CEREMONY WAS UNLEASHING. NOW, TEN YEARS LATER, VALORA ROLLAND HAD RETURNED TO HER FAMILY'S ANCESTRAL MANOR, AND TO THE BLACK MOUNTAIN THAT BROODED ABOVE IT, DETERMINED TO FACE THE PAST. AND THAT MEANT FACING LUIS REDHAWK, THE MAN WHOSE POWERS, ANCIENT AND MODERN, HAD DRAWN HER AND TERRIFIED HER FOR SO LONG... AND IT MEANT LEARNING, AT LAST, WHAT TIED THIS MAN TOT THE DARK FORCE THAT WAS ONCE AGAIN STIRRING RESTLESSLY AT THE PEAK OF MOUNT SANGRE.

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