Faraday to arrive. Ever since supper last night, I’d been eavesdropping and asking questions, trying to find out if any of the others who’d taken Faraday’s odd little test had been invited to participate in the next stage. As far as I’d been able to tell, I was the only one. &nb...
Hunger gnawed at her stomach, and her throat burned with thirst. But the moment she tried to sit up her head spun like a weaver’s bobbin, and it was all she could do not to vomit. How long had she lain unconscious? In the darkness it was impossible to guess. The last thing she remembered was Old ...
It had taken all evening and a small mountain of scrap paper to get the wording right, but by the time he copied it onto the pages he’d coated with Isaveth’s tracking potion, he felt certain Eryx would take the bait. The biggest challenge had been figuring out how to tempt his brother without put...
Every third storefront stood vacant, with boards nailed across the windows in a feeble attempt to keep squatters from breaking in, and even the ink-parlors and baccy-shops had closed for the night. The only lit windows in the neighborhood belonged to a tavern, whose faded and creaking sign read T...
Hoarsely she shouted, ‘Mum! Marigold! Wake up!’ But her mother did not stir. The only sound was a scraping of branches against the door, and a distant whinny that must have been Duchess, protesting as Gillian rode her away. Ivy drew a sobbing breath. ‘No,’ she begged, not even knowing with whom s...