Summer Raine thought her life was tough growing up as an orphan, but with finding her relatives, it's become clear, having a family is not all it's cracked up to be.Her paternal side is out to kill her and her maternal side is, well, odd to say the least, with a great aunt who wavers on the cusp of dementia and a great uncle who is a grumpy talking cat, both of which are feverishly shoving a crash course of witchcraft down her throat to help survive the apocalyptic war of magic that will probably be their demise.Add a defiant adolescent hellhound to the caldron, Tori in the hospital from an almost fatal dog mobile crash and Summer losing her heart, she isn't exactly having the best time.How will she ever learn enough of the craft to save herself, her friends, and the crazy family she's finally found? And what if her newly found wicked witch of a twin sister doesn't seem all that...villainous?Discover how Summer keeps her sanity during these troubling times with the help of some...

In this anticipated follow-up to The Sojourn, Alan Cumyn continues the story of Ramsay Crome, an artist who never quite came home from the First World War. The horrors of a German prisoner of war camp haunt him, as does the memory of his sweetheart, his beautiful Margaret. Upon coming home, he meets and marries Lillian, a farm girl. By the time she gets pregnant, she wants nothing more than to escape the dreary poverty of their Depression-era existence and flee back to the farm with her husband and child. She wants him to love only her, to open up about his war experiences, explain the paintings she found of a nude Margaret. To her they are obscenities and provoke the bitter taste of jealousy. Alan Cumyn is the author of six acclaimed novels. Literary Fiction, Canadian Author.