Xan and Salem’s Fork
This is not called “Xan’s Salem’s Fork” because Xan wouldn’t have Salem’s Fork as a gift. Its fine dining is the Greasy Fork, its art gallery is Mother’s Tattoos, and its theater is Value Video!!. Even worse, the damn place is built on a site of power which means there’s magic leaking out all over, and the inhabitants are so used to it they don’t even notice. They have standing stones at the top of their mountain and not one of them has said, “Hey, that looks like Stonehenge.” If Xan lived there, she’d be dripping with power, and Xan will sacrifice a lot of things for power (Vincent comes to mind) but she will not sacrifice her Good Life to for a life sentence in Mayberry ESP.
But the most annoying thing about all that power is that it has masked the Fortune sisters while she searched for them. Thank God they’ve never realized they’re sitting on the Mother Lode of magic because if they ever learn to draw on it . . .
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Ooh - foreshadowing!
It’s OK to like Xan, isn’t it? I think she’ll be an awfully interesting villainess.
I adore Xan. Feel free to join me.
Just a few days left to wait. My book is already in transit. Soon they will all be mine…
K.L., you left off the insane cackle and the rubbing of hands.
I got mine in the mail today. I don’t usually get my books this quick. Somebody must have messed up. [shrugs] I sure ain’t gonna look a gift horse in the mouth though.
The poor people at the book store are just SICK of me. I’ve gone in there at least four times this week, hoping against hope that they’ve broken the Laws of The LayDown Date and put this book out early. Yes, I know that would be bad. Yes, I know, and I feel guilt, ok? Are you happy with guilt?
But - I. WANT. THIS. Book.
(Geez, now I feel like Orangehands!)