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Hysterical laughter flew out of Rowan, and she couldn’t stop it. This couldn’t be happening. It had to be a nightmare. Right? Someone, please tell her this wasn’t real. Oh, avan, she couldn’t breathe. Where had the air around her gone? Through the static fill...

Ten minutes later, they’d converged on a sitting room. John looked like hell, and Rowan thought mom might be dying inside, but at least they were together. They were together. What did they do now? “Thomas and Mia left?” Rowan asked. She was sitting cross-...

When Rowan found them, her mom, John, and Aunt Hailey had several crates piled in pull-along wagons as well as knapsacks at their feet, full of supplies she was guessing. John was holding another backpack, focusing on his discussion with the other two until Ro...

Oscar Shalen, a consummate businessman down to the having no soul bit, was a whiny bitch. As their car leaped over another unexpected bump in the terrain, jarring them, he grimaced, opening his mouth to complain again, and fucking hell, Rowan was going to stra...

They were the last ones on the jet with everyone else already buckled down in their seats, and mom threw Rowan at one of the few left available, beside Thomas. She did something at the hatch—Rowan couldn’t see what—before running toward them, screaming. “Go, ...

Something was wrong. Rowan didn’t remember what it was, couldn’t decide what could have gone wrong, but something was. Something- A loud noise… voice… crash... tugged at her. Moaning, she flailed, looking for Mia. Thomas and Asher had argued last night. She w...

The only other time Rowan had seen traffic this bad had been on her way home from the Cerullis’ estate yesterday, but that made sense. The people here were fleeing from the same thing. The plan had been to reach the nearest road and hitch rides from as many p...

Hiking over the mountains took a grand total of eight days, made longer by several complications. The first of these was, of course, Brandon. Figuring out a decent way to carry the trooper took much more thought than it should have, especially after a fever s...

Rowan didn’t know what she’d thought an alien would look like if she encountered one, too busy running away from them since they’d arrived to consider it, but it was definitely not this. Where it was standing at the edge of the clearing, the top of the being’...

Rowan didn’t like this. And yes, she knew how silly that was. Once Mia had suggested it, Rowan had been the one to badger her friends into this plan, but still, it was making her skin prickle, leaving sweat beading on it. Now that they’d reached this camp, t...

Given the flat, treeless nature of the tundra on this side of the mountains, Rowan wasn’t sure how Uncle Ethan kept his home hidden. As they once more rolled over bumpy ground, she didn’t think it was wise to ask this question of his honor guard, and with the ...

Troopers weren’t waiting in the hall that Uncle Ethan had directed Rowan to. Maybe they’d left after he’d told them she was taking over Asher’s supervision? Shrugging at herself, Rowan started knocking on doors, beginning with the third from the hallway’s end...

Talira made me join her in a public place for most of our meetings. I thought it was a reminder of our agreement, a way to get back at me for pulling one over on her decades ago. Today, we were having lunch near the city’s center, and I swore to Mother Time, ...

When I reached my floor, I found an unoccupied room, locking the door after I’d entered it. Making a running leap, I perched on a counter with my legs swinging before requesting a direct connection with Leski. She didn’t accept for so long that I wondered if s...

It always went like this. Life intruded on my emptiness in bursts, the times when Maikle or his assistants changed my med bags. I’d been told that I shouldn’t be aware of these moments when my body was taken out of a hibernation tube. Supposedly, my brain cou...

While I traveled across the park to my next mission, I examined the two people I was supposed to be, one real and one false, and by the time I reached House Zan’s headquarters, I was a little appalled that I’d spent so much time around Kolb members. What good ...

I was already awake when my alarm went off, working on the problem that had become my obsession in recent days. I’d worked at this random string of letters from my placement exam for a little over a month, and still, I’d come no closer to unraveling their secr...

Amelise left me alone, and pasting the connector’s pads to either side of my neck, I sank into a chair. I easily found the file that had been assigned to me, and after combing through its processes for less than an hour, I identified what was likely causing th...

Talira made me a whiskey sour as soon as I walked into her office. Shortly after I became the Lokke Vitras, she’d added the drink’s ingredients to her sparse sideboard, not once harping on how I should stay sober like Korix had used to do. Without a job or sn...

With a shuddering gasp, I straightened in my seat. A blanket fell over my senses as I fumbled for the knife that was always stashed beside the console in these skycruisers. I had to let this awfulness, boiling inside of me, out. I had to relieve this guilt, so...