Arriving at the Hotel Dante (built in the 1840’s and recently converted into apartments) Kevin meet his new housemates: Van, a mysterious lesbian artist drawn to the dark side of human nature, Cory, a carefree party-boy who’ll hook up with any guy who’s interested, and Adam, Toby’s straight best friend from high school – who is secretly in love with Toby. At first Kevin and Toby’s reunion is wonderful. But soon, Kevin begins hearing a strange voice coming from within the hotel – a voice that is summoning him. Drawn to the basement, Kevin stumbles upon Ambrosius Vallin, an immortal warlock imprisoned for over a hundred and fifty years. In 1840, Ambrosius was engaged to marry Grace Neville, a powerful practitioner of “Tresum”, an ancient supernatural religion. When Grace found Ambrosius making love with another man, she killed his lover and cursed Ambrosius to an eternity locked in the Dante’s basement. Only the kiss of a young man would set Ambrosius free. Having successfully made Kevin hear his call, Ambrosius summons him to the basement and forces Kevin to kiss him. The kiss from Kevin breaks the curse. Not content to be young and|free again, Ambrosius decides Kevin is his destiny, and will stop at nothing to have him. He puts a spell on Kevin, and also turns Cory into a sort of personal slave and spy so that he can keep an eye on Kevin. But Grace won’t allow Ambrosius to find love or happiness, and uses her magic to murder Kevin. Ambrosius, who learned Tresum’s powers while locked in the basement, succeeds in reviving Kevin. Meanwhile, searching the historical society for an explanation of the strange happenings in Dante’s Cove, Toby and Van find the Book of Tresum written in a strange ancient language. Van is able to cast a spell from the book and break the curse on Kevin, freeing him from Ambrosius’ hold. It seems like a happy ending, until Ambrosius uses Cory to lure Toby away from the sleeping Kevin, and throws Toby into the ocean to drown. |Season two As we return to Dante’s Cove for its second season, we find Toby and Ambrosius continuing to battle for Kevin’s love. Toby and Kevin struggle to build a relationship while contending with the ordinary obstacles of jobs, troublesome exes, and well-built hookups, as well as the extraordinary obstacles from Ambrosius and his mission to gain Kevin’s love. Van, having found in Season One that she has Tresum power abilities, asks Grace to become her teacher. Meanwhile, her girlfriend, Michelle, is frightened of Van’s magical/dark side, and Van will wind up paying a high personal price for choosing to continue her Tresum studies. Grace Neville returns to torment Ambrosius. In agreeing to teach Van Tresum, she has a hidden agenda of her own, as does gorgeous newcomer Diana Childs, whose past, and future, is inextricably intertwined with Grace and Ambrosius’. Other new characters include Marco, the handsome owner of the local outdoor bar H2Eau; bad-boy Kai, who can be counted on to get his customers whatever they need, legal or illegal, and Colin, who runs the island’s private sex club, and conceals a much darker secret.|The residents of the Hotel Dante will deal with addiction and insanity, love and infidelity, coming out and breaking up. One will die, and another will kill. Some, like Adam, will face hard truths about themselves. Others, like Toby, will face hard truths about those they love. Just like|a family, the residents of Dante’s Cove fight over the little things, but they are there for each other when it matters. And as the Solstice approaches and magical forces gather strength, they’ll have to make hard choices and ultimate sacrifices. |
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