Steel clashed against steel as he blocked Terra’s attack, and fiery tremors split down her arm, threatening to tear it apart from the inside out. Damn Phantoms. They hit hard. Terra bit back the pain and slashed forward once more. Jason blocked, and with his other fist he hammered down hard on he...
He could look after himself. She only hoped he had the sense to go back to earth before his magic grew too weak and the monsters found him. She walked through the ruins of Munich. The second circle of hell was even further removed from the real world than the first. And now that she was really, c...
Ok, so that wasn’t anything new. When your life consisted of hunting misbehaving monsters across the city of San Francisco, punctuality took a backseat to survival. But this time she didn’t have an excuse. She hadn’t spent the morning fighting mages doped up on magic. Nor had she spent the aftern...
A monstrosity of a building loomed over them, its dirty concrete walls bleeding rust. There was not a mage in sight, crazy or otherwise.“That way,” Kai said, pointing up the hill at the old cell house.Sera felt it too. The mages were gathering. There were so many of them. Dozens and dozens. Their...
A shifting mass of wood splinters spread across the muddy field like a tattered blanket, simmering with plumes of dark smoke. The thick, lingering tang of explosives burned her nose. Whoever had blown up the barn was not pulling any punches. If Logan hadn’t shielded her, she probably wouldn’t hav...
In fact, he didn’t trust most people. Especially Selpes. Even less so Selpe spies. And least of all that particular Selpe spy, who’d already lied to them. What Silas did trust was Leonidas’s sense of preservation and his desire to see Marin safe again. That’s why he was indulging this detour to A...
She didn’t have a bullet hole through her chest. She wasn’t even bleeding. Whatever the base leader had shot her with, it wasn’t fatal. But it was nasty. She had a hell of a headache. She sat on the cold, stone floor. Moisture, thick and stale, hung in the air. The room she was in was hardly larg...