The world didn't end. And the appearance of seraphs heralded three plagues and a devastating war between the forces of good and evil. More than a hundred years later, the earth has plunged into an ice age, and seraphs and demons fight a never-ending battle while religious strife rages among the surviving humans.Thorn St. Croix is no ordinary neomage. All the others of her kind, mages who can twist leftover creation energy to their will, were gathered together into Enclaves long ago. There, they live in luxurious confinement, isolated from humans and exploited for their magic. When Thorn's powers nearly drive her insane, she escapes - and lives as a fugitive, disguised as a human, channeling her gifts for war into stone-magery and the pacific tasks of jewelry making. But when Thaddeus Bartholomew, a dangerously attractive policeman, shows up on her doorstep and accuses her of kidnapping her ex-husband, she retrieves her weapons and risks revealing her identity to find him. And for Thorn, the punishment for revelation is death....

    Her power, her help...her life. All the while ghosts move frightfully in the night and a serial killer slinks closer and closer...Witches are real. Much to the ire and horror of most of Texas. Halloween's been cancelled, hate groups have organized, and the fear is very real. Now people are cropping up dead in my small East Texas town and nobody can decide whether witches are to blame or if witches are the victims.What’s this have to do with me? I thought nothing. I’m nobody--human, poor, going nowhere.But the Sandman is a nefarious shadow in my dreams,A frightening Hellhound wants to make me his new master,And the potential serial killer is roaming in the woods behind my house, begging for a kiss.I’m not a witch…Until I'm killed for being one.A reckoning is coming for my murder, riding the coattails of an unprecedented storm.I seek retribution. For me. For the others.We want our pound of flesh.Author Note: This is a slow burn reverse harem with four male love interests. This is the first book in a series. The main story line will have an ending but some parts of the story will end on cliffhangers. Expect murder mystery, ghosts, character growth, and villainous love interests..