Cum gryphae equis iungunt: when pigs fly, that's what reed baye hunter's family motto means. when gryphons mate with horses, it's another way of saying "impossible, fantastic love."people say that urban legends grow out of a kernel of truth, some small seed of fantastic reality . . .reed baye hunter comes home from one bloody war, only to discover a more horrific conflict in her own backyard. ari ben warrick, her darkly mysterious neighbor, has answers. reed needs answers: how is she going to find her missing horse; who is killing her livestock; and what is behind the legend of the ghost lights of 'taintsville, florida?the dark water that slips through the cypress knees of reed's childhood home bear silent witness to the secrets and myths and nightmares found in the gryphon's glade.