“For God’s sake,” Constantin Stoica called to Karina Petri. “Jump!” Standing on a flimsy tree branch, Karina trembled. The adjacent trees were too far to jump to. And the ground below her waved in and out of focus. Her mouth went dry. “I’ll catch you,” Constantin called loudly. At thirteen, he wa...
Richard Bellum attested as he stood by Rose’s tiny newsroom desk. “For the life of me, I can’t explain how Starkov vanished from the clothesline!”Rose nodded. She was astounded too, but not to the same degree as Richard. The more time she spent around Drago, the more convinced she was that he was...
The search for her amulet had led nowhere, yet her father remained at the house—determined to find the necklace before he went back to London. Draven sat by her side all the while, reading her love sonnets, poems, and chapters from novels. She’d had no idea that he liked to read as much as she di...