title: Escaping the Cauldron: Exposing Occult Influences in Everyday Life
author:  Kristine McGuire 
description: "Kristine McGuire writes with refreshing vulnerability as she shares her experiences as a witch, medium, and ghost hunter. Using Scripture to anchor her words, she encourages the church to love and not condemn those trapped in Satans snare." Tracey Bateman, author of <i>Widow of Saunders Creek</i>
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   **CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT**
  
  by Mercedes Lackey
  
    
  
  A Tor Book
  
  First edition: August 1990
  
    
  
  Dedicated to
  
  Melissa Ann Singer
  
  For more reasons than I can count
  
   **ONE**
  
  Diana Tregarde sighed, propped her chin on her right hand, and leaned on the
  countertop. Of all the jobs I could have taken, working in an occult supply
  store is not one I’d have chosen on my own. I like my profile low, thank you
  very much. Too many people know I’m into the Craft as it is. This just boosts
  my visibility. She stared out the window and tried not to feel like some poor
  GI in a bunker, waiting for the next scream of “Incoming!”
  
  I hate being exposed like this. But I owe Annie … She flexed her shoulders,
  forced herself to relax. Your paranoia is showing, Tregarde. There’s no reason
  to be this gun-shy. It’s not that bad. This isn’t like the Bible Belt, where
  I’d get crosses burned on my lawn for being a witch. And most people I run
  into here are eithe