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Meeting the extended family for a New Year's celebration seems like a simple pleasure. Ash doesn't mind traveling to Cooper family’s snow camp in Michigan. Their mission: Meet the relatives, examine the haunted sword, and find a way to bring back Jared using new skills and old traditions.

Sigmund Harte - army vet. Detective. A lucky guy pursued by unexplained fires and explosions. A sweet and loving man, crushing hard on his older PI partner. David Rhea - wilderness guide. Wind master. Recluse. When the young Sigmund confesses his affections, he responds...poorly. Lucky for Sig, Cooper and Ash adopt him, determined to teach him elemental control and love alike. Will their incendiary threesome last, or will David Rhea wake up and claim the man who threatens to slip away...forever?

Either gifted or cursed, Paul can’t touch anything electronic. Cell phones fry, breakers trip, a whole section of the electrical grid collapses on a bad day. But now, having moved to Pittsburgh with his twin to help Cooper and Ash, his “gift” threatens to unveil the special powers of them all. Russ teaches high-voltage techniques to line workers at a local tech institute. He hides his mental illness of “seeing things” as best as he can - until Paul lands in his classroom.

Boring advertising job by day, exciting cat-burglar stint by night. Evelyn lives for the adrenaline rush. Breaking in is her guilty pleasure, and when she takes a little souvenir, she makes sure it’s not a sentimental item. While hunting for her illicit adrenaline high, she doesn't expect to run into a man who is hotter than July. Raf Rinaldi has an explosive temper, a body of a Greek god, and zero tolerance for law-breakers.

Ash, the water-whisperer, and Cooper, the earth elementalist, seek help from Cooper's grandparents while at their small farm in upstate New York. Fessing up to grandma might lessen the horror of their power control issues. When Ash and Cooper are together, the earth moves and the rivers rise to flood stage.

Divorced and apart from his young daughter, Vince just can't get into the Christmas spirit. He's supposed to be free, gay, and out. His ex-wife even encourages him to date and be happy - but his heart isn't in it. Vince's younger officemate Tom is working through dark times. He can't navigate his way out of a paper bag, but his personable manner and generosity is the bright candle that lights the way for both of them. Friends, family, and the greater New York area means nobody needs to be alone.

Fresh out of school, architect Cooper Anneveinen tends bar by night and chases small clients by day. He sees what lies hidden underground. The unexplained, wild images complicate his life and drive him to seek medical help - but not even antipsychotic drugs make him "normal". Ash Ravenna talks to water, and water sometimes obeys his wishes. Using his gift in a pollution clean-up effort, he hires Cooper to help with an old industrial property by the river.

Glass is fascinating, along with the century-old process of making high-tech glass in an old Pittsburgh factory. Eli Winkler, new on the job in quality control, finds the learning steep. Worse, someone tries to chase him out of the ancient and territorial institution.