From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
        "Direct Descendant" by Tanya Huff © 2025   
        Published by DAW Books. $29.00 US/$39.00 Canadian   
        328 pages but the story is only 327 pages.   
   	I got my copy at the SFPL-Main.   
      
   	Well this is about 2 direct descendants but we don't know   
        that one is until nearly the end of the story.   
   	In the 1830 a group of men made a deal with the Dark   
        and were sacrificed. The deal was to have no problems with   
        the silver mine at Lake Argen which they had discovered.   
   	Special powers are given to 4 of the Direct Descendants.   
   	At current time a direct descendant of the original group   
        is assigned to be on the spot at an overlook.  Also on hand   
        is a young man who stabs himself in the foot and is sucked   
        into the earth.   
   	Shortly thereafter the rich grandmother of the man hires   
        an out of work English teacher to investigate and the story   
        takes off.  Huff has a sense of humor as the character is   
        reading a Lesbian romance on her first night in Lake Argen   
        in a story which in large part is a Lesbian romance.   
      
   	I enjoyed the story very much but the Lesbian sex is   
        not closely described though the romance is.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)