The Rules of Magic

Haylin comes to New York to confront Frances with an ultimatum: either she will be with him or he will marry Emily. Frances leaves him to Emily, still believing that it is for his own good. She attends his engagement party, and she and Haylin end up making love in the lift. She leaves Haylin frustrated that she cannot make a promise to him, assuming that he follows through with the wedding.

Vincent and William fly to San Francisco for the Summer of Love, where they are able to be more open as gay lovers, and Vincent acquires fame for his singing. There April tells Vincent that he fathered Regina the summer he stayed at Aunt Isabelle’s. April conjectures that as Regina has a double Owens bloodline, she will also live for a short time.

Back in New York, Vincent gets attacked during the Stonewall riots. William takes him to Sag Harbor to meet his father, Alan, a man who has been gay all his life but has had to hide the truth of himself.

Jet goes to visit the cemetery where Levi is buried and realizes that she is not far from the tree where the witches were hung at the bequest of Hathorne, the man who fathered Maria Owens’s child.