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233 pages, ebook
First published September 29, 2015
Do not reveal this to anyone (unless you're taken by villains and tortured for it, of course).
After Harvel’s experiment, and with gehenna-tainted blood in his veins, he was no more human than the Hound and a hundred times more terrifying. Like those fearful folk, he’d once been an ordinary person. Now he represented the horrors that might have happened to any one of them but by the grace of God had not. In his observations, people feared the almost far more than the what if.
“I would give all of eternity for one more hour with you,” he said . . . He kissed her forehead. “But today, it’s not to be.”
“There is so much more to this life than we know, isn’t there? It could be real. It could be. Fairies and shape-shifters. Airships and demon lovers. Why couldn’t they be real, Tom? Why would we dream of them if they weren’t real?”
He was her favorite form of madness.
“I would give all of eternity for one more hour with you,” he said.
“I will never forget this,” he whispered against her lips. “Not a moment. If I live a thousand years, I will never forget this. Do you understand? I will never forget you.”