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"That’s a Shifter for you Lia at all The gift of Blarney, he calls it" Kim smiled at the computer, her eyes filled with love for her talkative mate "This will be fun I’ll delete your trail and load it with legal questions Sean’s eyes glaze over when I talk about legal issues Or I can fill in with searches for shoes Or baby furniture"

"You’re a treasure, Ki to keep from Sean, but take some advice" Kim looked up at Andrea with dark blue eyes that had seen and acceptedman, and there’s s, deeply"

Andrea had seen that already "I know his brother’s death hit him hard and that Sean blames hie his life Sean was close to Kenny, and having to watch him die makes Sean doubly protective of everyone he cares about Sean’s never said all this to me; but you live in the sas"

And now Sean was trying to move in with Andrea "I’ll keep it in , and Andrea departed with her ht as she descended, was that a ley line streaked right through the heart of Shiftertown

Not surprising, really This entire area had fallen into disuse and urban decay long before it had become a Shiftertown The Shifters had been put here precisely because no one wanted the real estate In the twenty years since then, real estate a ain when the ed

A half-Fae huovernments to devise the Collars that kept Shifters tamed Had he also advised huht a bit of Fae h it would keep Shifters quiet?

It also could open a gate to Faerie

Andrea stashed her file in her room and then went back out to the place where she’d seen the Fae

The ley line, according to the ht line behind the houses on this street Walnut trees, which caught the mists on still, wet days, towered overhead

Gates to Faerie were rare There were places in the world, Andrea had learned, where the gates could always be found--in stone circles in northern Europe, near temples and other sacred places in South America, in deep canyons of the A mountains of Asia Fae who knew the spells could cross between standing stones and other thin places in the fabric of the universe, but this ley line wasn’t that strong

But gates could be created with a burst of very strong h the dreaic The link to this Fae was Andrea and her nightmares

Andrea stood on the very spot the FaeIf there had been a gate here last night, it wasn’t here now