I fought back a giggle and Dimitri smothered me to his chest at the top of the landing. He might be as stealthy as a shape shifter, but I felt like an ox going up those stairs. I covered my mouth, but still, my face hurt from grinning as he took my hand and pulled me down the hall. The air hung h...
Frankie was polite enough not to mention it. Or maybe my car performed about even with a 1920's jalopy. We took a left, and then followed Rural Route 7 until we came up on the main road that led into town. I steered that way without even thinking, until Frankie piped up."Whoa," he said, as if eve...
The ghost streaked past, a wall of terror and pain and rage.It would have slammed right into me.Obviously, this was not a talking ghost. This was an attacking one, and it was very, very angry. I braced myself against a row of hardbacks, my heart threatening to beat clean out of my chest. "Ha," Fr...
“Get ’em.”A dozen Dark Lords charged up the hill. I grabbed Frieda to keep her from pulling a mamma bear and sent us both stumbling backward. We needed to run, hide, but we were on the top of a crag with nothing but the wind and a broken ski lift at our backs.This situation was going from bad to ...
Father McArio warded our camp extremely well. Galen handed me the upper half of my torch. "I doubt you have killer scorpions, either." Touché. I was all for hightailing it out of there, but what I'd give for another few minutes up against that Humvee. I felt raw under my clothes, ready. Galen w...