CHAPTER SIX BARIQ Bariq concluded his phone calls organizing things for the masquerade and changed into soft sleeping pants. He closed the blackout curtains, slid between crisp, cool sheets, and…
CHAPTER ADEEN Awareness returned slowly. It always did after she died and returned to live again. Her thoughts jarred. Died? Live again? Somehow, she knew that’s what had happened, but…
CHAPTERGRETEL Gretel’s stomach woke her with its insistence that she needed to throw up. Right now. The undependable ground lurched, sending her sliding over a wooden surface. She threw out…
CHAPTER SANI Cold struck Sani’s chest and burrowed deep. He staggered backward on four legs that barely supported him, shifted to human, and collapsed to the bloody, churned…
CHAPTER TEREZA Tereza inched toward her car. She rushed for the door, only to be tackled. All the air was pushed out of her lungs. Her ribs screamed. Spiked…
CHAPTER SANI There was no rational thought about which direction Sani should go. Pure instinct drove him toward Tereza. It wasn’t just that she’d left him. There was…
CHAPTER TEREZA A human body was sixty percent water. Tereza wasn’t sure what percentage of water made up a Winter Fairy, but most of it streamed down her…
Sorry for the delay! This chapter has taken on a life of its own and keeps growing. I’ve decided to break it up into sections and intersperse it with prior…
CHAPTER SANI If he hadn’t squeezed his lips together, this leech of a woman would have shoved her tongue down his throat so far she could have tasted his last…