Mark Runte

Daniel grew up knowing that his family had a gift, and a curse no one else did. It wasn't just the ghost of the family matriarch that haunted him. It was the shadow of witchcraft hanging like a cloud over his head. Ambition, he could have dealt with, protecting his little brother from the political games their father played. Until he saw its true nature for himself. To hurt or kill with just a...

Aran always had his secrets, things he didn't feel like sharing until his younger brother finally got up the nerve to ask about the past he never mentioned. At least until mid a few days in mid September after an early morning swimming lesson. Until asked, he never spoke of the family had before being adopted by their parents or some of his own past. It was his own until Tristan's curiosity...

His brother abandoned him as a child with nothing more than a note. He returned fifteen years later with consequences for their family. Tristan never forgave him for that night on the beach. Or for the secrets Aran still keeps. Jamaica born, Susannah Gray came to Washington for nursing school and to find more about her father's side of the family. She never counted on finding herself in a war...