Such a beautiful spring day, and yet Kate couldn’t allow herself to enjoy it. Not really. She sat in the passenger seat of the Jeep and watched the landscape pass by outside, every mile bringing them a little closer to Tucson, and to this cousin Consuelo. What would she be like? Kate imagined that someone who’d spent most of their life researching dark magic must be somehow dark as well, bent and twisted. No, she was just manufacturing an image based on movies she’d seen and books she’d read. Jack would never take her to meet someone who wasn’t on the up and up. If the clan didn’t have someone who specialized in this stuff, how would they know how to fight it?
To be honest, her current nervousness only had a little to do with leaving the sanctuary of the house in Tubac, and a lot more to
