title: Living in the Light: Freeing Your Child from the Dark Ages
author:  Anne R. Stone 
description: ... a useful manual with which to rear children of all personality types free of the baleful effects of supernaturalism. -- <i>Frank R. Zindler, editor, American Atheist Press</i>
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  Circle of Desire
  
  
  
  
  
  Damask Circle 03
  
  
  
  
  
  by Keri Arthur
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Air hissed through the silence. Tendrils of smoke began to curl past the
  window seams, its color sickly, luminous. Katherine Tanner tugged free one of
  the two white ash stakes strapped to her jeans and clenched it tight. On the
  opposite side of the room, a little girl slept on, oblivious to the smoky
  slivers of evil beginning to slip past the window. Kat hoped she remained
  unaware. Remained asleep and alive.
  
  
  
  
  
  But if Gwen's premonition was right — and her grandmother's premonitions
  usually were — this child would be the next to go missing. They'd done
  everything they could to prevent that. They'd nailed the windows shut, had
  cops patrolling close by, and warding stones had been placed around the
  child's bed to prevent any form of magic coming close.
  
  
  
  
  
  But these wards weren't designed to stop evil itself — and that's what was
  seeping into this room tonight.
  
  
  
  
  
  Her stomach beg