Warning: Book Spoilers

 Several months have passed since Cotillion and Harper is working with Ryan and David to help figure our David's powers without getting him killed or making him crazy. The friends have decided to try dampening David's visions (without his knowledge) because the visions are so painful for him. This seems to work until one night when David has an extremely powerful vision that leads him to the headquarters of the Ephors (the people tasked with overseeing the Oracle and who up until recently wanted to kill David), a home which up until weeks ago had been a burned out wreck. At the house they meet Alexander, one of the Ephors who reveals to Harper that she is not technically a paladin yet. Alexander informs Harper she must go through a series of trials called the Peirasmos, and if she doesn't do them, then the Ephors will simply keep coming after her and Ryan until they are both dead and they can make a new mage and paladin. Also, she doesn't actually have a choice in wheth...

  Elatsoe is a 17-year old Lipan Apache girl living in Texas. She, like her ancestor "Six-Great" (her six-times great-grandmother), has the ability to conjure ghosts from the underworld, including her faithful dog Kirby who remains her companion after his death. One night, Elatsoe gets a feeling that something bad is about to happen and assumes something is wrong with her parents, who are out on a movie date. She decides to ride her bike to the movie theater, and on the way, she spots her friend Jay attempting to climb an old bridge. Jay and his girlfriend have just broken up and he wants to cross out the heart he had previously spray painted with their initials on it. Elatsoe talks him down and finds her parents at the movies, who tell her everything is fine. However, later that night, Elatsoe's cousin comes to her in a dream and tells he he has been murdered by a man named Dr. Abe Allerton in a town called Willowbee. In the morning, Elatsoe learns that indeed her cousin...