Shrouded Agendas

Life as a vampire is getting no easier for Mari, despite her newly awakened brother joining her in the Springfield enclave. Now that their chieftain knows of Christoph’s plans to go renegade, doubts arise over who in the household is to be trusted. Whether Gianni has a hidden agenda isn’t the only worry. Or who may be spying for whom, for the escalating war with the Ouachita colony has drawn their monarch out of Italy, and Uziel well guards his knowledge and intentions regarding the schism, her own foreshadowing abilities, or the appearance of a powerful elemental. Mari has her own secrets, as she has to keep from Ben his having fathered a superhuman child with her former best friend, now Troy’s fiancée; that reunion seeming finally lost. Furthermore that Caron is the one in jeopardy from Gianni’s challenge to release Christoph’s fealty in exchange for the mysterious familiar. This no less a worry for Troy and Caron, they must contend with troubles closer to home with David fighting the divorce and trying to hide the rapidly developing, unique new life inside her. The danger to Caron and the baby prompting them to form a coven of witches around them creates more family issues with Troy acquiring a new beneficiary to rival Mari and bringing out Caron’s immortal mother —who’s already had more of a hand in their lives than they knew. All the while, preoccupied by the past, Troy’s downplaying of the prophesized danger to his future will have deadly consequences.