The Wife Who Returned
She squeezed his hand gratefully, drawing strength from the simple contact, from the reminder that she wasn't alone in this fight.
"I've spent the last three weeks," Whitmore began, laying the documents carefully on the desk, "researching every recorded case of supernatural bargaining I could find. And I do mean recorded—not folklore, not myths, but actual documented cases where someone made a deal with a non-human entity and lived to tell about it. Or didn't, as the case may be."