Chapter 2 – Prison Ceremony
Ironwood Correctional Facility looked exactly like every prison movie Juliette had ever half-watched through her fingers—all concrete and razor wire […]
Ironwood Correctional Facility looked exactly like every prison movie Juliette had ever half-watched through her fingers—all concrete and razor wire […]
The lawyer’s office smelled like old leather and desperation. Juliette Sinclair clutched her purse tighter, feeling the worn strap dig
One desperate contract. One dangerous husband. To erase her family’s crushing debt, Juliette marries a terminally ill inmate in a
The first faint rays of the true dawn, a bruised purple on the horizon, began to seep through the high,
The words, “The choice she made now would define her for eternity,” hung in the silence of the forgotten chamber.
The blinding flash of violet light had been Talia’s desperate gamble, a final surge of power from the Blood Key,
Talia held him, his heavy form collapsing against her, his dark suit a ripple of shadow. Her hands, still stained
A wave of violet energy erupted from Talia—a surge of raw power born of immortal hunger, aimed directly at the
The Blood Key pulsed in Talia’s hand, its ancient power violet against her pale skin—a relic born of ancient vampire
The reflection in the mirror had stripped away the last illusions of her humanity. Talia was no longer the nurse