Publisher's Synopsis
A young girl seeks answers to her mother's veiled past. A warlock bent on immortality. Both paths lead to the Bloodstone. Tabitha Millhouse has grown up in the shadow of her mother's death. Her father will not speak of it or even tell her where they are from, only that they had to leave. On Tabitha's fifteenth birthday, a quarrel with her father leads her to a frightening encounter with a shape-shifting old crone who taunts her with knowledge of her past-but more importantly-her future. Ultimately her past and future are connected to a legendary artifact of terrible power. The Bloodstone. In the wrong hands it will wreak havoc. Tabitha's hunt for the truth leads her into dark encounters with a vengeful warlock bent on finding the ancient relic. Will the old crone's tutelage provide the answers Tabitha seeks, or will the past be something she should have left alone?
