PROLOGUE 3 Weeks Earlier Death clung to my skin like bitter smoke. It smelled of dirt, decaying leaves, and despair, the odor so potent that I couldn’t escape it. Everywhere I turned, the stench followed me, growing stronger with each passing second. Desperate to breathe in anything other than that acrid scent, I started to run. My bare feet slapped against the wet asphalt, carrying me faster and faster until I was all out sprinting. Hurry, hurry, hurry , I urged myself—de

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PROLOGUE He watched through the tinted windshield as she started up her silver Honda. “She saw me in my true form,” he said the second...

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I could smell her fear before she entered the banquet hall. After witnessing her practically dangling from the rooftop not an hour...

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