The setting for book two of a trilogy is a boarding school in the heartland - an interesting location for the ultimate battle between good and evil. Within the walls are mysteries associated with the facility, administration, students, and years of history.

Twins, Izzy and Kain, are teenagers with a duel life – discovering the potential of their powers while students at the school. They balance an instinctual hunger along with relationships, classwork, and a horrifying secret. Quests of discovery include dreams, visions, and time travel – piecing together a complex puzzle of history, the origins of their power, and the possibility of changing historic events.

Within the pages is a clever use of irony in a parallel story – the performance of Romeo and Juliet by the Drama Club. The Shakespeare play is known for the tragic deaths caused by pure love compared to the School’s body count associated with pure evil.

The story has multiple layers to challenge the mind and increase the enjoyment for the reader – moving meticulously though normal life, supernatural, and time. Ms. Slick has an extraordinary ability to envision, and relate in words, the realm of the supernatural. Is this an actual spiritual connection with another world or evidence of a very talented storyteller? I’m guessing the latter.

The story highlights the dilemma of the twins and the reader - confronting what we are, what we are capable of becoming, and what influences to accept or reject. At Tompkin’s School, these are life and death circumstances. The moral question of natural instinct is evident: What is an acceptable amount of collateral damage in the quest to stop evil? The reader longs for a hero to emerge, but too many questions build the tension with intrigue. The questions also lead into book three.