content: This book is awful! It's 'Silence of the Lambs' meets 'Dark Shadows' meets Ann Rice's witches' series - with none of the originality of any of them. The characters are ridiculous stereotypes from soap operas and cop shows. Their names are hard enough to swallow, but their actions stretch the suspension of disbelief. Come one, "Aloysius and Diogenes Pendergast!" An FBI agent who lives in mansion, complete with a dungeon? Ancestors who lived on the brink of madness and genius? It's just really an awful, awful book.