Branches off from my story In The Woods When First We Met, but you don't have to read that story to get this one. Anne's been through something, but Gilbert's been there for her all along, and her family and friends know and support her too. This story is about what happens afterward. We see Anne through her pregnancy, raising her child, and her marriage to Gilbert.

In this sequel to The House of Bells, Min Meyer is faced with another set of issues. A secret group, called The Watchers, are focusing on Min and her brood of girls. And Silas is determined to have as normal of a relationship with Min as is possible. Too bad the Essences are interfering again.

Min Meyer is not the typical thirty-two year old single woman. In fact, the only truth to that sentence is that she is single. Min was once called Need -- the Essence of Need. A spiritual body that governed and guided that aspect of the human soul. And she is not really thirty-two, rather an indeterminable age from when the species of man first roamed the earth. Silas Blake is a divorced, normal man in his mid-thirties. And Min's new boss. He allowed a woman to control his heart once before, but his ex-wife never had the alluring power of his newest employee. Add in six, precocious teenage girls, one meddling group of Essences, and the fate of a child that will save the world. Some things just can't be left up to chance.