LOGINThe whole Shaman thingy was originally intended as a subplot, but this isn't quite how I envisioned it. As I’ve been working on this book, many things have changed along the way — some for the better, and others less so. Oh well! I'd appreciate your thoughts.
Ava“No one,” I said, but the lie sounded stupid in my own mouth.Evelyn didn’t flinch. She stood in the doorway, backlit by the hall like some museum statue, and waited for the rest.She did that thing, that therapist trick, where you just let the silence go as long as it has to. My throat tightene
AvaHe shrugged, genuinely puzzled by the suspicion. "I'm supposed to keep you safe, but I wasn't sure who you were. The others won't tell me anything. I asked, but they just said, 'Don't fuck with the client.'"I had a hundred questions, but none of them fit in my mouth."So," he called, "are you h
AvaDreams never had a beginning, just a stuck point you circled until the body got bored and let you go.I was in a hospital, the kind from old TV—white walls, fake green plants, the smell of bleach and old lemons. I wore a hospital bracelet that said AVA GRAHAM, which wasn't my name, and I was try
AvaHe put a big, bleeding hand on the leader's shoulder and herded him toward the side door, the other mercenaries falling into a double column behind.The whole group moved as one organism, but every eye in the pack flicked to me as they passed. There was hunger there, and fear, and the kind of cu
AvaFrom my window, the driveway looked like a vein running down the center of the estate, wet in the dusk, tree shadows flickering over the old flagstones.I'd been lying on the rug in my bathrobe, hair still wet, knees to my chest, staring up at the cracks in the ceiling and thinking about nothing
“I just—” I shook my head, because the words wouldn’t arrange themselves. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”She watched me, eyes bright, mouth twisted in a half-smile that made her look meaner than usual. “Is it the sex?” she asked, voice loud enough to echo off the cinderblocks. “Is he th







