I reached Jonah on my way to the House—the river and lake were back to black and still sucking magic from the city like it was going out of style. Which meant not only had that problem not been solved—the entire situation was escalating. I felt a real jolt of fear. I had no idea where this was he...
He wore a short-sleeve plaid shirt, slacks, and thickly soled shoes. He still used the cane he’d needed since he was trapped in a house fire caused by anti-vampire malcontents, but moved spryly with it. Jeff Christopher, brown-haired and lanky, climbed out of the car’s pas...
“Not much for tech, is she?” I asked. Jeff offered the arrogant grunt of an IT whiz kid. “Not even slightly. And she’s stealing wireless from her neighbors. But that’s neither here nor there.” Damien stepped forward. “Did you find anything that is h...
I told Jonah. “It means, according to the GP—and therefore every vampire under the GP’s control—you’re the enemy. And you’re to be treated like an enemy by the GP and every vampire under the GP’s control.” Ethan had warned me once, before we’d consi...
You know the dream where you’re in class, but you totally forgot to take a shower and stuff? How about the dream where you wake up beside your best friend in the basement of a private school fifteen minutes before classes start? Long story short, that dream ends with you running through the schoo...
We stared at each other across the small table like foes across a battlefield, weapons honed and at the ready. But we weren’t enemies. We just weren’t anything else, either, exactly. “Are you going to play sometime tonight?” ...