Collects the major events, births, and deaths in the Lockard family.
John Lockard takes his kids and leaves Ogden, Kansas. He turns up in Sioux Falls at Dex Lockard's house approximate a week later.
Ally stops wandering and signs a month-to-month lease for the #3 apartment above the Bullseye Tavern.
John leaves Charlie, Gunnar and Jenny at Dex's house with Carolyn in order to pursue a more dangerous hunt without them.
Ellie Nelson, writing under the name E.L. Nelson, self-publishes her first work of poetry after the nation-wide success of her fantasy novels. It is dedicated "to John."
Ellie Nelson's mother dies. She falls into a deep depression and goes into seclusion.
Ellie rents a cottage in Wales and spends four weeks writing the next book in her series.
John arrives at a book signing for "Rebirth" and asks Ellie to sign his copy of "Dear John." Lots of crying ensues.
After months of construction and spellwork, Ellie and John finalize the spells which will shroud the Lockard Family Compound from the rest of the world. Inadvertently, they also produce their only offspring, the nascent consciousness of the compound, Hestia.