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For our mothers

Susan Racca,who raises baby squirrels andfeeds them with an eyedropper,&Marilyn Ross Stohl,who could drive a tractor beforeshe could drive a car.

They are true Gatlin Peaches.

Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light—Were all like workings of one mind, the featuresOf the same face, blossoms upon one tree;Characters of the great Apocalypse,The types and symbols of Eternity,Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.

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No. Are you okay?

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You’re not.

You don’t know that, Ethan. I think I am.

You’re not, L.

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The moon, her Sixteenth Moon, was full and luminous now. As shestared at it, Izabel could feel the rare gifts her family was so sure shepossessed—the powers of a Natural—being twisted into somethingelse. Soon her thoughts and heart would not be her own. Sorrow, de-struction, and hate would force everything else out. Everything good.

Izabel’s thoughts tortured her, but the physical pain was unbearable,as if her body was tearing itself to shreds from the inside. But sheforced herself to her feet and ran. There was only one place she couldgo. She blinked hard, her vision clouded by a golden haze. Tearsburned her skin. It couldn’t be true.

By the time she made it to her mother’s house, her breath wasragged. Izabel reached above the door and touched the lintel. But forthe first time it didn’t open. She pounded on the door until her handswere cut and bleeding, then she slid to the ground, her cheek restingagainst the wood.

When the door opened, Izabel fell, her face slamming against themarble floor of the hallway. Even that didn’t compare to the pain ra-ging through her body. A pair of black laceup boots was barelyinches from her face. Izabel clutched at her mother’s legs frantically.

Emmaline pulled her daughter up from the floor. “What happened?What is it?”

Izabel tried to hide her eyes, but it was impossible. “It’s a mistake,Mamma. I know how it looks, but I’m still the same. I’m still me.”

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“No. It can’t be.” Emmaline grabbed Izabel’s chin so she could see herdaughter’s eyes. They were as yellow as the sun.

A girl not much older than Izabel came down the winding staircase,taking the steps two at a time. “Mamma, what’s going on?”

Emmaline whirled around, pushing Izabel behind her. “Go back up-stairs, Delphine!”

But there was no way to hide Izabel’s glowing yellow eyes. Delphinefroze. “Mamma?”

“I said go upstairs! There’s nothing you can do for your sister!” Theirmother’s voice was defeated. “It’s too late.”

Too late? Her mother didn’t mean that—she couldn’t. Izabel wrappedher arms around her mother, and Emmaline jumped as if she’d beenstung. Izabel’s skin was as cold as ice.

Emmaline turned, holding Izabel by the shoulders. Tears alreadymarked the woman’s face. “I can’t help you. There’s nothing I can do.”

Lightning streaked across the black sky. A bolt tore down, splittingthe huge oak that shaded their house. The splintered trunk crasheddown, taking out part of the roof with it. A window shattered up-stairs, and the sound of glass breaking echoed through the house.

Izabel recognized the unfamiliar look on her mother’s face.

Fear.

“It’s a mistake. I’m not—” Dark. Izabel couldn’t bring herself to saythe word.

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“There are no mistakes, not where the curse is concerned. You areClaimed Light or Dark; there is no in between.”

“But Mamma—”

Emmaline shook her head, pushing Izabel across the threshold. “Youcan’t stay here. Not now.”

Izabel’s eyes went wild. “Gramma Katherine isn’t going to let me livethere anymore. I have nowhere else to go.” She was sobbing uncon-trollably. “Mamma, please help me. We can fight this together. I’myour daughter!”

“Not anymore.”

Delphine had been silent, but she couldn’t believe what her motherwas saying. She couldn’t turn her sister away. “Mamma, it’s Izabel!We have to help her!”

Emmaline looked at Izabel, remembering the day she was born. Theday Emmaline had silently chosen her child’s true name. She hadimagined the moment she would share it with Izabel—staring intoher daughter’s green eyes and tucking her black curls behind her earas she whispered the name.

Emmaline stared into her daughter’s glowing yellow eyes, thenturned away.

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Too many questions were tangled up in her mind. What was she go-ing to tell John? How could she make him understand she was stillthe same person? Would a Light Caster still love her now that shewas… this?

“Izabel?” John was half asleep, his dark eyes staring back at her.“What are you doing out there?” He grabbed her hand before shecould answer, and pulled her inside.

“I—I needed to see you.”

John reached for the lamp on his desk.

Sarafine grabbed his hand. “Don’t. Leave it off. You’ll wake up yourparents.”

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He looked at her more closely, his eyes adjusting to the dark. “Didsomething happen? Are you hurt?”

She was beyond hurt, beyond hope, and there was no way to prepareJohn for what she was about to tell him. He knew about her familyand the curse. But Sarafine had never told John the date of her realbirthday. She had made up a date, one that was several monthsaway, so he wouldn’t worry. He didn’t know that tonight was herSixteenth Moon—the night she had been dreading for as long as shecould remember.

“I don’t want to tell you.” Sarafine’s voice broke as she choked backtears.

John pulled her into his arms, resting his chin on her head. “You’re socold.” He rubbed his hands over her arms. “I love you. You can tell meanything.”

“Not this,” she whispered. “Everything’s ruined.”

Sarafine thought about all the plans they had made. Going off to col-lege together, John next year and Sarafine the year after. John wasgoing to study engineering, and she planned to major in literature.She had always wanted to be a writer. After they graduated, theywould get married.

There was no point thinking about it. None of it would happen now.

John squeezed her tighter. “Izabel, you’re scaring me. Nothing couldruin what we have.”

Sarafine pushed him away and pulled off the sunglasses, revealingthe golden-yellow eyes of a Dark Caster. “Are you sure about that?”

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For a second, John only stared. “What happened? I don’tunderstand.”

She shook her head, the tears burning the skin on her icy cheeks. “Itwas my birthday. I never told you because I was sure I would goLight. I didn’t want you to worry. But at midnight—”

Sarafine couldn’t finish. He knew what she was going to say. Hecould see it in her eyes.

“It’s a mistake. It has to be.” She was talking to herself as much as toJohn. “I’m still the same person. They say you feel different when yougo Dark—you forget about the people you care about. But I haven’t. Inever will.”

“I think it happens gradually….” John’s voice trailed off.

“I can fight it! I don’t want to be Dark. I swear.” It was too much—hermother turning her away, her sister calling for her, losing John.Sarafine couldn’t face any more heartbreak. She crumpled, her bodysinking to the floor.

John knelt beside her, gathering her into his arms. “You’re not Dark.I don’t care what color your eyes are.”

“No one believes that. My mother wouldn’t even let me in the house.”Sarafine choked.

John pulled her up. “Then we’ll leave tonight.” He grabbed a duffelbag and started shoving clothes into it.

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I’m not afraid, L.

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“Ethan Wate, that you?”

“Aunt Prue?”

She came shuffling out of the absolute nothingness. She was thereand not there, flickering in and out of sight in her best housedress, theone with the loud flowers and the pearly-looking snaps. Her slipperswere crocheted in the same rainbow of browns as Aunt Grace’s fa-vorite afghan.

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“What? I didn’t visit you last night, Aunt Prue.”

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“What did you tell me?” I asked.

“What did you ask?” She scratched her head, and I realized with arising panic that she was beginning to fade away.

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“Are you coming back, Aunt Prue?”

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“Can you come with me now?”

She shook her head. “Don’t you know? That’s up ta the Wheel a Fate.”

“What?”

“Sooner or later, it crushes us all. That’s what I told you, remember?When you asked ’bout comin’ over here. Why’re you askin’ so manyquestions today? I’m bone tired, an’ I need ta get me some rest.”

She was almost gone now.

“Leave me be, Ethan. Don’t ya be lookin’ ta come downside. TheWheel ain’t done with you.”

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I was trying to sort some things out. I think I’ve been mad at her allthis time, like I blamed her for dying. How crazy is that?

Ethan, think about how I acted when I thought Uncle Macon wasdead. I went crazy.

It wasn’t your fault.

I’m not saying it was. Why is everything about fault with you? Itwasn’t your mom’s fault she died, but a part of you still blames her.It’s normal.

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The old man laughed. “There’s no mistaking you. I know a Cataclystwhen I see one.”

Sarafine felt the icy blood pumping through her veins.

He knew.

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“Let it burn. It is on the cold side tonight.” He smiled, unaffected bythe flames.

Sarafine was shaking. “What do you want?”

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To burn everything in her path.

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Still, she reached.

The memory was easiest to see when they were lying in bed, tangledup in each other.

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Yeah, I just blanked. I don’t know.

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They don’t have Red Hots, L.

You thinking about someone I know?

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Since Abraham showed up at your house?

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It felt like she was coming.

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“I see Amma most days and your daddy on the weekends. They comeby ta talk a lot more regular than D@>6 people.” She sniffed.

“I’m sorry. Things have been all wrong.”

She waved her hand at me. “I’m not goin’ anywhere. Not just yet.They got me on house arrest, like one a them criminals from the TV.”She coughed and shook her head.

“Where are we, Aunt Prue?”

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It was a rose, hammered out of gold.

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“I will.”

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Sarafine had to hang her hopes on something.

Lena wasn’t the only unexpected person to show up in her life.

Sarafine was walking alone when she saw Abraham Ravenwoodstanding on the same corner where she had first met him, almost ayear before. He seemed to be waiting, as if he knew she was coming.As if he could somehow see the war being waged on the battlefield ofher mind. A war she never knew if she was winning.

He waved, as though they were old friends. “You look troubled, MissDuchannes. Is something bothering you? Is there anything I can doto help?”

With his white beard and cane, Abraham reminded Sarafine of hergrandfather. She missed her family, even though they refused to seeher. “I don’t think so.”

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He tried again. “Have you been starting fires by accident? It’s calledthe Wake of Fire.”

Sarafine froze. She had inadvertently started several fires. When heremotions intensified, it was as if they actually manifested into flames.Only two thoughts consumed her now: fire and Lena.

“I didn’t know it had a name,” she whispered.

“There are a number of things you don’t know. I would like to inviteyou to study with me. I can teach you everything you need to know.”

Sarafine looked away. He was Dark, a Demon. His black eyes toldher everything she needed to know. She couldn’t trust AbrahamRavenwood.

“You have a child now, don’t you?” It wasn’t really a question. “Doyou want her to walk the world beholden to a curse that dates back tobefore you were born? Or do you want her to be able to Claimherself?”

Sarafine didn’t tell John she was meeting Abraham Ravenwood inthe Tunnels. He wouldn’t understand. For John, the world was blackor white, Light or Dark. He didn’t know they could exist together,within the same person, as they did in her. She hated lying, but shewas doing it for Lena.

Abraham showed her something no one in her family had everspoken of—a prophecy related to the curse. A prophecy that wouldsave Lena.

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to change everything: “ ‘The First will be Black / But the Second maychoose to turn back.’ ”

Sarafine felt her breath catch.

“Do you understand what it means?” Abraham knew the wordsmeant everything to her, and she clung to his as if they were part ofthe prophecy. “The first Natural born into the Duchannes familywould be Dark, a Cataclyst.” He was talking about her. “But thesecond will have a choice. She can Claim herself.”

Sarafine found the courage to ask the question eating away at her.“Why are you helping me?”

Abraham smiled. “I have a boy of my own, not much older than Lena.Your father is raising him. His parents abandoned him because hehas some very F?FDF2= powers. And he has a destiny as well.”

“But I don’t want my daughter to go Dark.”

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Part of Sarafine wondered if he was right. She prayed he was.

Abraham was also teaching her how to control the urges and thevoices. There was only one way to exorcise them. Sarafine set fires,burned down huge cornfields and stretches of forests. It was a reliefto allow her powers free reign. And no one got hurt.

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“Here again?” Sarafine could hear the contempt in Hunting’s voice.

“I’m just reading.” She tried to avoid confrontations with Hunting.He was vicious and cruel, yet there was always a thread of truth inhis words. Truth she tried desperately to ignore.

Hunting leaned against the door, a cigarette hanging between hislips. “I’ll never understand why Grand-father Abraham wastes histime with you. Do you have any idea how many Casters would kill tohave him as a teacher?” Hunting shook his head.

She was tired of being bullied. “Why am I a waste?”

“You’re a Dark Caster pretending to be Light. A Cataclyst. If that isn’ta waste, I don’t know what is.”

The words stung, but Sarafine tried to hide it. “I’m not pretending.”

Hunting laughed, baring his canines. “Really? Have you told yourLight Caster husband about your secret meetings down here? I won-der how long it would take him to turn on you.”

“That’s none of your business.”

Hunting dropped his cigarette into an empty soda can on the desk.“I’ll take that as a no.”

Sarafine felt her chest tighten, and for a second everything wentblack.

The desk caught fire just as Hunting pulled his hand away.

There was no warning. One minute she was angry at Hunting; thenext, the desk was going up in smoke.

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Hunting coughed. “Now, that’s more like it.”

Sarafine scrambled to put out the fire with an old blanket. Predict-ably, Hunting didn’t help. He disappeared into Abraham’s privatestudy down the hall. Sarafine stared at her hands, covered in blackash. Her face was probably filthy, too. She couldn’t go home to Johnlike this.

She wandered down the hall toward the small bathroom. But as soonas she came within a few feet of Abraham’s door, she heard voices.

“I don’t know why you’re so obsessed with that kid.” Hunting’s voicewas bitter. “Who cares if he can go out in the daylight? He’s barelyold enough to walk, and Silas will probably kill him before he can beuseful.” He was talking about the boy Abraham told her about whenthey first met. The one who was a little older than Lena.

“Silas will control his temper and do what I tell him,” Abrahamsnapped. “Have some vision, boy. That child will be the next genera-tion. An Incubus with all of our strengths and none of ourweaknesses.”

“How can you be sure?”

“You think I picked his parents by accident?” Abraham didn’t like be-ing questioned. “I knew exactly what I was doing.”

For a moment there was silence. Then Abraham spoke again. “Itwon’t be long before the Casters are out of the way. I’ll see it in mylifetime. I promise you that.”

Sarafine shivered. A part of her wanted to run for the door and neverlook back. But she couldn’t. She had to stay for Lena.

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When Sarafine got home, John was in the living room.

“Shh. The baby’s asleep.” He kissed her on the cheek as she sat downnext to him on the couch. “Where have you been?”

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“What?” John sounded as if he thought he had misunderstood her.

“I met one of my relatives, and he told me things about the curse. Th-ings I didn’t know. The second Natural born into the Duchannes fam-ily can Claim herself. Lena can choose.” It all came tumbling out, somany things she had longed to share with him.

John was shaking his head. “Wait a minute. What relative?”

There was no stopping now. “Abraham Ravenwood.”

John stood up, towering above her. “Abraham Ravenwood, the BloodIncubus? He’s dead.”

Sarafine jumped up. “No. He’s alive, and he can help us save Lena.”

John was studying her face as if he didn’t recognize it. “Help us?Have you lost your mind? He’s a blood-drinking Demon! How do youeven know if anything he told you is true?”

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“Why would he lie? He has nothing to gain from telling me that Lenahas a choice.”

John grabbed her by the shoulders. “Why would he lie? How aboutbecause he’s a Blood Incubus? He’s worse than a Dark Caster.”Sarafine cringed beneath his fingers. It didn’t matter if John calledher Izabel; her eyes were still golden yellow, and her skin ice-cold.She was one of them.

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John was so angry he didn’t notice how her face had crumbled. “Youdon’t know that. He could be lying. We don’t even know if Lena’s aNatural.”

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John let go of her shoulders and ran his hands through his hair. “Iza-bel, this guy is a monster. I don’t know what he wants with you, buthe’s playing on your fears. You can’t speak to him again.”

Panic welled up inside her. She knew Abraham was telling the truthabout Lena. John hadn’t seen the prophecy. But there was somethingelse. If she couldn’t see Abraham, she couldn’t control the voices.

John was staring at her. “Izabel! Promise me.”

She had to make him understand. “But, John—”

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He cut her off. “I don’t know if you are losing your judgment or losingcontrol, but if you go anywhere near Abraham Ravenwood, I’ll leave.And I’ll take Lena with me.”

“What did you say?” He couldn’t mean it.

“If what he says is true, and Lena has a choice, she will choose Light.I will never allow any Darkness into her life. I know you’ve beenstruggling. You disappear all day, and when you’re here, you lookdistracted and confused.”

Was it true? Could he see it on her face?

John was still talking. “But it’s my job to protect Lena. Even if it’sfrom you.”

He loved Lena more than he loved her.

He was ready to walk away and take her daughter.

And one day, Lena would Claim herself. John would be sure sheturned her back on Sarafine.

Something clicked within her, two chambers locking into place. Therage wasn’t cresting anymore. It was crashing down on her, drown-ing her beneath it. And she could hear the voice.

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The drapes ignited, sending fire racing up the walls behind John.Smoke started to fill the room, black and dark, a living, breathingshadow. The sound was so loud as the flames ate away at the walland spread to the floor. The fire created a perfect circle around John,following an invisible path only she could see.

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“Izabel! Stop!” John screamed, his voice twisted by the roaring of thefire.

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He believed she was Dark.

He always had.

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