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It’s the beginning of summer in North Hampton, and beautiful Freya Beauchamp is celebrating her engagement to wealthy Bran Gardiner, the heir to Fair Haven and Gardiners Island. But Freya is drawn to Bran’s gorgeous but unreliable brother Killian, and sparks fly when the two decide to play a... read more
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Characters edit
- Freya Beauchamp: Free spirit and youngest daughter of Joanna Beauchamp. Employed as a bartender, she is engaged to Bran but attracted to Killian. When she becomes anxious, odd things occur around her. Possesses the supernatural ability to see intense emotions. Appears in the Blue Bloods series when she owns a bar in NYC and saves Oliver's life.
- Ingrid Beauchamp: Impeccable looking librarian and archivist and Freya's older sister. Ability to see into people's futures.
- Joanna Beauchamp: Matriarch of the Beauchamp family. Possesses the ability to bring objects to life. Mother of Freya, Ingrid and Fryr, Freya's twin brother who has been trapped in the underworld.
- Branford "Bran" Lyon Gardiner: Philanthropist and heir to Fair Haven and Gardiners Island who fell in love with Freya and asked her to marry him, has a secret identity like his brother.
- Killian Gardiner: Bran's younger brother who is also in love with Freya, has a secret identity.
- Lionel Horning: Local farmer and artist. Emily's common law husband. Falls into a coma while fishing in the ocean after an unusual explosion.
- Hudson Rafferty: Junior librarian who possesses a doctorate in Romance language.
- Caitlin Parker: Works at library, attracted to Matt Noble.
- Matt Noble: North Hampton police detective and briefly Caitlin's boyfriend. Ingrid is attracted to him.
- Molly Lancaster: Local college student who becomes a missing person after drinking one of Freya's special cocktails.
- Corky Hutchinson: Mayor's wife who seeks Ingrid's help to solve her husband's infidelity problems. Television newscaster.
- Sal McLaughlin: Bar owner and Freya's boss.
- Gracella Alvarez: Beauchamp's housekeeper, mother of Tyler
- Tyler Alvarez: Gracella's four year old son who is beloved by Joanna Beauchamp.
- Emily Foster: Local artist who seeks Ingrid's help for, Lionel, her common law husband, who is in a coma.
- Antonio Forseti: A warlock, friend of the Beauchamps and defense attorney at one of the largest and most successful NYC law firms.
- Madeline (Mimi) Force: Vampire from NYC who pays a visit to Ingrid for some advice.
- Hector Alvarez: Gracella's husband, Tyler's father, groundskeeper for the Beauchamp family.
- Bill Thatcher: North Hampton resident found murdered on the beach.
- Maura Thatcher: Bill Thatcher's wife, attacked on the beach, found alive but in a coma.
- Tabitha Robinson: North Hampton library's young adult librarian, wife of Chad, co-worker of Ingrid. Trying, unsuccessfully, to get pregnant.
- Chad Robinson: Disabled husband of Tabitha.
- Blake Aland: Successful developer who wants to build condos on the ocean front property where the library is located in North Hampton.
- Kristy Hannagan: Bartender at the North Inn with Freya
- Madame Grobadan: Bran and Killian Gardiner's step-mother.
Setting & Locations edit
The Beauchamp women live in North Hampton, a small island community frequently shrouded and obscured with fog on the tip of Long Island (but not that Long Island).
- Fair Haven: A manor home located on Gardiners Island, which is located adjacent to North Hampton. It has been abandoned for years.
- North Hampton: A small island community on the Atlantic coast populated by tight-knit families.
Organizations edit
- White Council: After the Salem witch trials, this governing body forbade the exercise of magic in mid-world for those who chose to continue to live in the shadows within this realm.
First Sentence edit
North Hampton did not exist of any map, which made locating the small, insular community on the very edge of the Atlantic coast something of a conundrum to outsiders, who were known to wander in by chance only to find it impossible to return; so that the place, with its remarkably empty silver-sand beaches, rolling green fields, and imposing, rambling farmhouses, became more of a half-remembered dream than a memory.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: The Town at the Edge of Nowhere
1. Cat Scratch Fever
2. Country Mouse
3. Home Fires
4. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
5. Sister Talk
6. A Knot in Her Belly
7. A New Boy
8. Gift Horse
9. Love the One You're With
10. Witch Business
11. The Sunshine of Her Life
12. Library Fines
13. Aftershocks
14. Friends with Benefits
15. A Certain Wild Magic
16. Friend or Fraud
17. Midsummer Night's Dream
18. The Patron Saint of Lost Causes
19. Rhinemaiden
20. Darkness Visible
21. The Only Way to Avoid Temptation...
22. The Long Road Home
23. Missing
24. Angel of Death
25. Finger-Pointer
26. The Worm Turns
27. Heart Sick
28. The Hidden Door
29. Husband and Wives
30. The First Stone
31. Marooned
32. Thief in the Night
33. Safe House
34. The Vampires of Manhattan
35. Covenant of the Dead
36. Family Secrets
37. The Salem Trials
38. A Good Offense is a Good Defense
39. The Brief Wonderful Life of Tyler Alvarez
40. Twenty Questions
41. The Poisoned Tree
42. Gotterdammerung
43. The Curse of Freya and Balder
44. The Labyrinth
45. Trickster's Queen
46. The Judgment of the Council
47. Law and Order
Epilogue
Glossary edit
- The Fallen: The immortal vampires and lost children of God.
- mid-world: The human realm
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 5 in The Beauchamp Family. (standard series)
Preceded by Diary of the White Witch, and followed by Serpent's Kiss.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Melissa de la Cruz (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Hyperion Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 21, 2011
ISBN: 1401323901
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Hyperion Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 21, 2011
ISBN: 1401323901
Page Count: 288
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3604.E128W58 2011
- Dewey: 813.6
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