Castle of Nevers and Nightmares by Lana Pecherczyk EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lana Pecherczyk
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- Genre: Time Travel Romance
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WILLOW
I shouldn’t be doing this.
I’m hanging upside down from a rope around my waist, peering
through the third-story window of the Order of the Well’s chief mana stone
maker. It’s broad daylight. Anyone can see me if they walk into the yard,
but the inhabitants are nocturnal and should be fast asleep. As long as my
lookout remains alert, I should be fine.
Relax, Willow. Relax.
I puff a lock of long hair from obscuring my vision and check for
movement inside. I see a workbench covered with various gemstones, jars
of glowing manabeeze, and tools of the trade. Piles of maps battle for
supremacy with books on a desk. Grinding offcuts litter the floor. Damn,
my Aunt Peaches is messy. Hopefully, that means she won’t notice a few
valuable items missing.
Leaves rustle behind me, and my pulse quickens. Only an amateur
would turn to check. Instead, I study the window’s reflection to avoid
rousing suspicion that I’ve noticed an interloper. But my only companions
are shrubs, flowers, and a glimpse of the poisonous forest canopy over the
yard’s boundary wall. No one sane would dare sneak in here when Haze,
Peaches’ mate, is a seven-foot vampire Guardian with a shadow that kills as
much as he does.
Shuffling on the roof draws my gaze as miniature antlers loom over the
gutter’s edge. One tine is broken. A floppy-eared rabbit’s head is next,
followed by chicken wings ruffling with nervous anticipation. Tinger huffs
and bares tiny fangs.
“Okay, I get it,” I grumble to my lookout. “You’re so impatient in your
old age.”
He gives me a familiar warning look I read as, Don’t fuck with me,
female, or maybe I’ll finally shift into a monster and steal you as my bride.
Except he’s been robbed of magic, like me—so no shifting for us. Since
no fae wants to be reminded they’re mortal, I salute him, place my palms on
the window, and close my eyes to listen with my sixth sense. I might not
have magic now, but I once did. Protection wards would feel like ants
crawling over my skin. I only sense a sweet, daisy-scented breeze, so I take
my dagger from my boot and use it to jimmy open the window.
No security whatsoever. It’s almost like they’re asking to be robbed.
The smell of stone masonry wafts out, along with perfume and
chemicals I’m unfamiliar with. My nose tingles, and I hold back a sneeze.
Well-dammit. Being stuck with wolf biology without the perks of shifting
sucks.
When my control returns, I maneuver inside like a gymnast, twisting
until my feet land on the wooden floorboards. Still crouched, I stretch my
awareness for sounds or changes in the atmosphere.
Haze’s shadow can act independently, so I’m worse than toast if he’s
left it to guard these valuable stones. Vampires are also obsessively
territorial when protecting their roost, and Jasmine, their halfling teenage
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