Where is everyone? Hayden woke to a darkness that felt wrong. She sat up, disoriented, and blinked at a window she did not recognize. Thin slats of sunlight sliced through blinds, painting the room in narrow bands. When she pushed the shutters open, an...

The Addiction to the Taste of Blood 1642, Summolk, County of Pricarièna. The red moon was rising on the foggy horizon. Hills of cultivated fields stretched wherever the eye wandered. The village lay three leagues beyond the forest. Roads were especially...