Midnight’s Claim

Chapter 30: The back table ROMAN A year on. She played the Noir on Friday nights. This was the arrangement […]

Chapter 29: The city sounds different INES The 1967 mediator’s notes were submitted to the inter-clan council in April. The

Chapter 28: The mark ROMAN The claiming ceremony had included the mark. She’d told him she’d chosen to accept it

Chapter 27: What claiming means INES She asked him about the claiming on a Saturday evening in January. Not the

Chapter 26: Resolution ROMAN The territorial challenge resolved in the clan’s favor on the twentieth of December. He submitted the

Chapter 25: What she knows about New Orleans INES She’d been thinking about the territorial challenge from three angles since

Chapter 24: The territorial challenge ROMAN The territorial challenge arrived through the formal channel twelve days after the claiming. He’d

Chapter 23: Playing for them INES The Noir’s main room at two o’clock on a Sunday afternoon was the most

Chapter 22: Finally ROMAN He told Celestine the following morning. He went to the Garden District house at nine because

Chapter 21: The upper apartment INES The Noir’s upper apartment was not a place she’d been. She’d been in the