The cemetery was gloomy, even when the sun was bright overhead. We’d been warned to stay away as children – the ghosts could drag you under and you’d never see the light of day again. With what we knew of magic, we believed them. Now the stories seemed ridiculous. Gray tombstones sprouted from the ground […]
She spared some thoughts for the man responsible for her misery, a man she had loved, a man who had become an assassin. He could have killed her, but he didn’t. Why, had been the question that had superseded every other since the shooting. She couldn’t get him out of her mind. She loathed the […]
The vampire tried to dodge me and escape, but I had the upper hand. I knew about the vampire’s speed; it had underestimated mine. I was in front of it before it could get past me. It skidded to halt, gaping at me. In a life-and-death fight, there isn’t a lot of time for questions. […]
Her once vibrant, blonde curls lay flaccid around her head like a scarf of despair. Her once lovely face was now the portrait of the all-consuming pain she had endured for the past several months.
Posing as another agent, and using the pretext that I had an urgent message to deliver to her from Sir Gillian, the guard planted in front of the door of her suite let me in after checking my CIA ID. The name I used then was Antoine Gironde. “What do you want?” Talya asked brusquely […]
Fern was being stupid. I knew why she wanted to get out. Hell, we had seen her fire – her eagerness to leave – since she was a child. My mom used to warn her mom that she was going to be trouble. She should have been a fire talent and left earth to the […]
It had been a hell of a year, and sometimes I still felt uncomfortable in my own skin. Whether that was because of my past – a killer who hated vampires – or if it was because I still didn’t always accept that I had two sides, I didn’t know. “What’s bothering you?” Connor asked. […]
“A rock? Since when has a rock attacked someone?” “This is more than just a rock. We don’t believe it is from our galaxy. It is made of a substance that we can’t define. It doesn’t show up on any of our scanners,” Belen said. “Really? Never heard of anything like that before.” Find out […]
One could say that Mark Gilford, a Canadian Secret Intelligence Service agent, was an attractive fellow. Not effeminate by any stretch of the imagination, his boyish face, blond hair and blue eyes hid the unyielding character of a marksman of note. Always dressed in the latest fashion, if transposed in another time or another place, […]