LOGINAnd every single person was walking.Everyone. The men from my truck, from all the trucks, and beyond them more, spilling out of side streets and doorways, hundreds, then more than I could count, every one of them moving the same way at the same slow even pace toward the blue light, and not one of t
SofiaThe thing nobody tells you about stowing away in the back of a wolf's supply truck is that wolves do not believe in shock absorbers.I'd been folded between a crate that smelled like gun oil and a stack of canvas duffels for going on four hours, knees up under my chin, one hand knotted around
AvaI came back into my own body the way you come up from under cold water. All at once, lungs grabbing, except the water was me, and I'd been drowning in myself longer than I knew.For a second there was no up. Too much arrived at once. After the white nothing of the place with Catherine, the world
"Alexander."My name, in the low voice, gone thin at the edges now. A command. Come. Hold the vessel. Put your hands on it and hold it still.The wall in my chest told my feet to move. A year of habit told them to move. I took one step up toward the seat. My body did it the way my body did everythin
AlexanderI had spent my whole life learning to read the exact moment a thing breaks, and the goddess wearing my bride was beginning to break, and I could not turn my head to look at her.That was the cruelty of the wall she'd built in me. It let me see everything and touch nothing. I stood where sh
"Ava." I said it out loud, to a concrete wall, and it came apart in my mouth. "I've got you. I'm here. I've got you, baby. I've got you."She couldn't hear the words. She never could. But she could feel a hand close around her in the dark, the way I'd once felt hers close around me from a hundred mi
AvaLevi’s yacht was moored at the furthest point of the private marina, a chrome-edged predator in a sea of lesser fish. The sun was low and harsh, slanting between the condos and casting everything in yellow bruises. Levi led me up the ramp, our fingers still laced, and for a second I thought he m
AvaThe instant Levi’s hand left my face, the rest of the store came unglued. The kids who’d been filming dropped their phones and scrambled backwards, knocking into shelves and toppling the cardboard display of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Jittery guy and beefy guy’s other friends grabb
HildaThey say your life flashes before your eyes when you are dying.I never believed that bullshit until now. The dagger was halfway to my chest when everything slowed down, and suddenly I was seventeen again, bleeding and running through the woods with glass shards embedded in my arms.The window
CatherineFrost trailed behind me as we walked the halls. The stone floor amplified our footsteps—mine quick and purposeful, his slow and reluctant. His silence had grown heavier since our encounter with Yrsa."You make it difficult to like you," he said suddenly.I snorted without looking back. "No







