If she was going to get dragged into a nightmare, then I was going to have to react as fast as possible to keep her from burning down the house and killing everyone inside. I didn’t get anymore sleep than she did, so when she woke up and decided to make breakfast, I agreed to help her. She tried ...
He kept the bus chugging away until the very last drop of gasoline sputtered out of the tank. We ended up in the small town of Whitney, Nevada around nightfall. We could have cut through Vegas, but big cities were magnets for Plagued and Soulless. Vegas was one of the places that had been pitiful...
It became too dangerous for us to make our rendezvous with Davy, our local food supplier. We had to hope that he would be willing to find another day to restock us. Sawyer, Gemma, and Nash fought off other marauders and thieves attacking Davy in exchange for food, water, and fabrics. But with win...
We were all exhausted and hurt, tense from the other Hellion attacks that could be lurking around the corners. For all we knew, dozens of Hellion skiffs could have dropped from under the Behemoth while we were in the tunnels. Searchlights embedded on the bottom of five H...
We were both fighters, and we hated each other. It was inevitable, really. I had an attitude that would make any nun faint, and Elle was about as friendly as an agitated pit viper. But I believed she was loyal to the demon slayers. They lived by...
I wouldn’t have wanted to be on the receiving end of it. I was perfectly content to lie on the infirmary bed. It was a sad sign that I had been here so many times I could recognize it by touch without even opening my eyes. “Ferno killed his charge,” Vitae’s voice carried through the room. I fig...