Novels by Noah

Aislin POV“No. And we haven’t detected her since,” said Everett. “I worry that Dalesbloom has captured her as well.”“How would we even know?”“Well, we can’t. Unless we manage to track them down.”I pondered the circumstances that left Dalesbloom in such ambiguity to us. After the attack, the Mythguard had never been able to find Dalesbloom and the Inkscales again. The town was absent of them, except for traces of dragon scent. Hexen Manor was abandoned—again, except for traces of the dragons that occasionally came by, probably to monitor the house and make sure nobody was trespassing. But David, Colt, and Lothair’s whereabouts were completely unknown. If the Mythguard knew where to find them, they would have made another extermination attempt. That was most likely why they were in hiding… and nobody even knew where to look. There was nowhere safe to look, because one wrong step in Dalesbloom could mean another massacre, and neither the Mythguard nor our packs were willing to take t

Aislin POVFor two days, I traveled between the hospital and Everett’s house. I only went back to Everett’s place to sleep and shower. Fortunately, my job had given me the week off, my other manager having found coworkers to cover my shifts. I wouldn’t have been able to focus, nor would I have been very effective with the jagged wounds on my arms, but they were healing at least. I didn’t eat as much as I should have. It didn’t matter—nothing mattered while my mother was lying there, struggling to survive her burns.By the third day, she finally stirred. The moment I saw her move, my heart leaped and I sat up, watching as she slowly opened the one eye not hidden beneath bandages. My mother groggily blinked awake and stared at the dimly lit ceiling above, then turned her head ever so slightly, taking in her surroundings. The twist of her neck elicited a small whimper from her. That sound was enough to bring me to my feet, hovering over the edge of the bed.“Mom?”She adjusted her body t

I was in such a state of shock that night, I barely registered the questions the police had asked me.“What reason were you visiting your parents’ house for?”I stared ahead and gaped, wordless, with the blanket draped over my shoulders. “We—We made plans for dinner with me and my boyfriend…” It was a lie, but with Everett right beside me, I figured he’d clue in and corroborate the story.“Can you identify the people who invaded your parents’ home?”“No…” Even if David had set out to slaughter our packs, it was an unspoken rule of the shifters not to expose one another to human authorities, lest we risk exposing our entire shifter community and complicating the cover-up for the Mythguard. But I would have loved nothing more than for David to face the consequences of his actions in court, and to waste away in a jail cell.“Witnesses identified you and Mr. March at a scene several miles away from here where you were engaged in a gunfight with two deceased, unidentified men. Can you expl

I pushed into the room and went for David. The maddened Alpha was disheveled with blood, his peppered beard scraggly and blue eyes wild, white dress shirt unbuttoned three down and sleeves torn. He pushed Muriel behind himself and thrust the knife at me.“Not so fast, March!” snarled David. “Any closer and I’ll cut the unicorn open!”“She’s useless to you if she dies in her human form,” I said. “I never said I’d kill her.”But fresh blood was poisonous to unicorns. I could already see bloody handprints tainting Muriel’s arm and pale clothes. Heavy fatigue circled her eyes, her body struggling to persist through all the violence. In my periphery, I saw Lothair’s transformation nearly complete, and knew I was rapidly running out of time.Disregarding David’s warning, I lunged for his arm to try to get the knife out of his hands. He growled and kicked my shin, then swung the knife at me, cleaving across my shoulder. I grabbed his shirt and slung my arm around his neck, wrestling with him

Everett POVThere were many times I saw my life flash before my eyes that night, but no moment frightened me as much as when I saw that dragon descend on Aislin.I couldn’t protect her while fighting the first dragon that lunged at me. Forced to defend myself, I clutched my gun tight with one hand and stabbed at the dragon with the other, taking every opportunity to cause pain. I shoved my fingers in its eyes. I slammed my fist against its head, and when my hand got caught in its mouth, I dug my fingers into its gums and pulled its teeth until its mouth bled. The dragon thrashed above me, but it never seemed to be able to get a good hold of me—I wasn’t going to be an easy victim to the beast. If anybody was going to kill me, it would have to be David himself.We wrestled for a couple minutes. In my periphery, I had seen Aislin run off to the shed and I’d heard the crack of wood as she burst through the door. But then I couldn’t see what was happening—it was all behind me, and I had be

There was no time for us to find a detour. Disregarding the damage to his Lexus—it already sustained a series of bullet holes—he maneuvered around the two cars, barely clinging to the shoulder and avoiding falling into the ditch, before we continued on. My parents’ house was deep in a residential bay. All the houses we passed had their lights on, their inhabitants hiding in terror at the sound of gunshots. As we drove past, some people became brave enough to stand outside, looking for the source of the mayhem, and I felt sick imagining what casualties might have formed by a stray bullet. Even thinking about the dragons we took down made me nauseous. I was proud that I had helped take down the one man, but the man Everett shot in the chest might not survive—and the one whose neck he broke was most certainly dead. Everett had killed two dragons already. I never imagined him capable of such a thing, and peeking over at him, I wondered if it even affected him. He stared firmly at the roa