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One

The bastard was fast.

Two

I knelt before the fountain and ran my blood-covered hands…

Three

It was barely after nine in the morning when I…

Four

The little Themis weasel had his phone turned off, sending…

Five

My sleep was disturbed again less than four hours later.

Six

The sun had already set when I finally walked down…

Seven

James was gone, but my duffel bag had been repacked…

Eight

Stepping out of the hotel, I was able to finally…

Nine

We followed the pale concrete ribbon winding north out of…

Ten

The warped wooden boards creaked and groaned as we stepped…

Eleven

On Bay Street, Mira pulled into an open parking spot…

Twelve

Back on the street, I paused beneath the streetlamp next…

Thirteen

The Savannah morgue was a large, one-story building squatting like…

Fourteen

Anger radiated off the nightwalker as her hand slid along…

Fifteen

The Telfair Conservatory was a large structure made almost entirely…

Sixteen

I clung to the sound of the rushing water as…

Seventeen

The sun had just begun to peek over the horizon…

Eighteen

A heavy pounding dragged me from the deep abyss of…

Nineteen

Less than two hours after Mira’s call, I stretched out…

Twenty

It was only after the tires finished squealing, launching us…

Twenty-One

I hesitated in the entrance to the Dark Room, my…

Twenty-Two

That could have gone better,” I said after several minutes…

Twenty-Three

There were still a few more hours before sunrise when…

Twenty-Four

Stifling a yawn, I rubbed my left eye with the…

Twenty-Five

My stomach tightened as anxiety pumped in my veins the…

Twenty-Six

I paced like a caged tiger, my footsteps muffled by…

Twenty-Seven

The small white two-story house sat out in the middle…

Twenty-Eight

There are dreams that jump from one garish image to…

Twenty-Nine

I hesitated outside of the town house, my hand on…

Thirty

I still don’t see how she’s going to be able…

Thirty-One

I leaned my shoulder against the stone wall outside of…