There are those who will do anything to capture the talisman...

Aishling's mother vanished on Halloween, 1989. It's been sixteen months, and she can't convince those at the Home Ma is alive. She's running out of time. Soon, they'll place her somewhere else. Ma would never find her then.

The only thing she remembers about that night is something she can't reveal. Another secret she can't reveal? Ma is a Celtic witch.

Her "gift" of prophetic dreaming also vanished that Halloween, until last night's dream. Now, an enormous, horned serpent dangles in her sleepy memory.

When Morrigan,...