Written in Red (The Others, #1)

by Anne Bishop

Lakeside was built on the shores of Lake Etu, one of the Great Lakes that are the largest source of freshwater in Thaisia—and

Erie? Ontario? Probably Erie, since Talulah (Niagara) Falls are just "up the road."

Henry leaned forward. “What is cs759?” “Her designation.” Simon hesitated. “Meg is a cassandra sangue.”

Long ago, there had been a word for her kind. Then, as now, it meant “harvester of life.”