Gus jerked her hood up as she stepped out of Natalie’s, rejoining the throng of humanity and letting it carry her along the causeway. In the short time she’d spent talking to Kyle, the flow of foot traffic had increased significantly. A sign of the impending shift change. The food carts along the edges were…
Another explosion from the direction of her living quarters showed the intruders had breached Gus’s last defense. “Don’t look back,” Gus ordered as Anandra’s hand pulled against hers, his focus on what was behind rather than what was ahead. Seeing his hood had slid down, Gus adjusted it for him. “You never look back.” That…
Something brushed the periphery of Gus’s senses. A murmur disguised as an omen. Easily ignored by someone else. Someone bolder and more assured. Gus, though, was none of those things. She was cautious and had learned to pay attention when the universe spoke. “What is it? What’s wrong?” Anandra asked, tensing as he noticed her…
Chapter One Part Three The human clutched the child, his hold punishing as he wielded the boy like a shield. “Don’t come any closer. I’ll kill him. I swear I will.” The boy struggled, flailing even as his captor dragged him backward. Gus shook her head at the child. “Calm.” Surprisingly, the boy listened. His…
Chapter One Part One “That definitely wasn’t there the last time I was here,” Gus muttered, stopping short at the sight of what was waiting for her on her doorstep. A dead man. Not exactly a rarity on Titan where criminals outnumbered upstanding citizens by at least three to one. But they didn’t usually turn…
