Chapter 4

The evening patrol shift change was the only window they had. At precisely eight o'clock, the inner compound guards rotated, leaving a three-minute gap in the visual coverage of the eastern corridor.

Seraphina dragged Leo down the stone hallway, his arm slung heavily over her shoulders.

Chapter 5

He was entirely too tall, built with the kind of broad-shouldered, lethal grace that made the air around him feel dangerously thin. His hair was as dark as the shadows he had just stepped out of, falling in unruly waves around a face carved from harsh, unforgiving angles. Scars traced the

Chapter 6

The Obsidian Court was less of a settlement and more of a graveyard for a forgotten empire.

As Seraphina followed Silas through the dense, twisted canopy of the Deadwoods, the trees suddenly gave way to a massive, sprawling cavern carved directly into the side of a jagged mountain. Insi