Usher's Passing

by Robert McCammon

Listen to me well; if you have two children, one of them is going to die. If three, two will perish. In the end, only one will be spared execution.” She winced at the use of that word. “And that one,” Ludlow whispered, “will inherit the gates of hell. Save yourself grief, Nora.

“Where you live ain’t important,” he said. “It’s what … lives in you.