A young girl seeks answers to her mother's veiled past.A warlock bent on immortality.Both paths lead to the Bloodstone.Tabitha Millhouse has grown up in the shadow of her mother's death. Her father will not speak of it or even tell her where they are from, only that they had to leave. On Tabitha's fifteenth birthday, a quarrel with her father leads her to a frightening encounter with a shape-shifting old crone who taunts her with knowledge of her...