This tale begins in the year 1849, in a bedroom of a plantation house. A woman, the lady of the house, is in labor, and her unborn son, unbeknownst to all present but she, will be the first warlock gifted in the ways of the South to be born in over two hundred years. The child, Henry, along with his three older sisters-Josephine, Alma, and Marjorie-will, for reasons they will not learn of until several years after their mother's murder, be considered...