The warm sunlight spilling through the window flickered for a moment as the train passed whistling under one of London's stone bridges. Evie frowned as the shadows danced over the page she had just turned to, but this was nowhere near as distracting as the sudden thud of someone landing on the roof overhead.
She sighed quietly and shifted in her armchair, staring only at the book propped open on her knee and pointedly ignoring her brother’s clattered entrance into the car.
"There's a letter for you," she said coolly, not bothering to look up as Jacob pushed back his hood and dropped onto the bed across from her. He had already propped
Chapter 1: Nightmares
He had not seen so much as tracks for the past week, and as the storm closed low upon him, the hunter stood motionless upon the invisible border that the sachem had drawn. Nothing concrete marked it; yet the boundary shone clear to his memory, rang in his mother’s stern tone. His people did not dare tempt fate, not with so many souls lost after crossing too close to the King’s cities.
Still, the full quiver upon his back stung him, and he only hesitated briefly before pushing forward into the settled lands.
He lifted his steps through the snow, taking every precaution not to disturb the predators that lay
The warm sunlight spilling through the window flickered for a moment as the train passed whistling under one of London's stone bridges. Evie frowned as the shadows danced over the page she had just turned to, but this was nowhere near as distracting as the sudden thud of someone landing on the roof overhead.
She sighed quietly and shifted in her armchair, staring only at the book propped open on her knee and pointedly ignoring her brother’s clattered entrance into the car.
"There's a letter for you," she said coolly, not bothering to look up as Jacob pushed back his hood and dropped onto the bed across from her. He had already propped