For most of that time he had been sitting with Grüsser. The Prussian had seemed desperate for company, and had asked Nathaniel question after question about why he thought Stanton had been so eager to get into a fight with the Southerner. Nathaniel had suggested that perhaps it was the man's murd...
She had been in pitch blackness before, but that didn't make this time any better. It wasn't so much the dark that scared her—it was the consequences of being discovered trapped in her father's most secret place. But if she was going to escape her predicament without alerting anyone, the first th...