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 […]

Mare loves Salem’s Fork because it has quirky little carpenter Gothic and Victorian houses and narrow cobblestone streets and steep hills and a winding river and a mountain and a woods and a mill and a derelict castle built by some deranged rich guy in last century, but mostly she loves it because of the […]

Lizzie doesn’t spend much time outside her house. Her gift is too out of control – if she were in the grocery store and something upset her she might very well turn the cabbages into ferrets, and then what would the neighbors think? She’s only held one job – she worked for a […]

Unlike Mare, Dee has never really felt settled in Salem’s Fork. She’s never felt settled anywhere. As a child she was dragged along with her parents wherever they were doing personal appearances, and since sixteen she and her sisters have been on the run from Xan. Salem’s Fork was originally just another convenient hiding place. […]