Here’s an (unedited) excerpt from Copper Kiss, my upcoming release from Liquid Silver Books:
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A shiver rippled down Reina’s spine, a chill that had nothing to do with the temperature of the room, and spread icy fingers up the back of her neck. All thoughts of sleep fled. Slowly, she sat up and reached her empathic senses out, searching for the disturbance.
What she found was a void, an absence where there should have been her own residuals, and Brett’s, and Adri’s fading ones, still lingering about. But just beyond her door there was nothing, only a cavernous emptiness that made terror run through her veins.
She felt out for the wards she had set around her room the first day she and Adri moved in, reached empathic fingers up to the ceiling and down into the floorboards. And in the doorway, just before the void, she found a tiny opening, a paper-thin slice made with surgical precision, just big enough for a man to slip through without anyone the wiser.
If she hadn’t woken, if she’d slept through the tiny shiver of reaction that the breach had sent through her…
She reached blindly for her nightstand, and the cross she always placed there when she removed it for the night. Her fingers grasped metal that burned like ice. She drew it close against her chest and reached out again, found the small, solid weight of her cell phone.
Quiet, she eased the flip phone open and thanked any gods who were listening that she had thought to program Logan’s number into her speed dial. Two buttons–one for the number, one to send–and help would be on its way.
She pressed the first, gripped her cross tightly, and hoped she’d be able to last until it arrived.
And, reaching for the second, the button that would connect the call and bring in the cavalry, a slow, sibilant voice whispered, “Oh, little girl. I wouldn’t do that, if I were you.”
