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From Joe's writing

Veronica Myler and Lucy Merritt were seated on either side of him, as his right and left hands. Edwin Grackle, a longtime Society member and not at all coincidentally a local police detective, had been granted a seat at the table and sat opposite him. Like most in the room, however, Grackle couldn’t even begin to guess the Society’s true motives in finding Gavin Young.

— Leap Year, chapter 40