36The Final StandBilly already knew this battle scene wasn’t going to look like a movie. There would be no big rolling camera shot swinging between the opposing forces: one army appearing on a hill, standing against a dramatic backdrop of a sunset or sunrise; the other—a smaller scrappy band—bravely standing ready for a “death or glory” finale. This battle scene would be altogether different.
When Billy, Soren, and Jacob looked down from the roof of the deserted Cape Cod-style house they’d occupied in the middle of the night, along with Aideen and the other members of her coven, they faced a very different scenario.
The house stood halfway along a road that led straight down to the harbor and the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. It was one of many, each detached, and although originally bu
