Once Upon a Dark October

Once Upon a Dark October

Author: Jessie Thomas Listening Length: 15h 12m

All curses made in blood must be broken with blood. Dreadmist Harbor sleeps under a near-perpetual veil of coastal fog, home to mortals, vampires, and those somewhere in between. Already down-on-her-luck, mortal charwoman Elspeth finds herself the target of a rogue vampire, shattering the peaceful coexistence. Forced t...

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I lay in fevered agony for days that felt like lifetimes.

Trapped between mottled shadows and blurred candlelight, a film of endless red behind my eyelids. I was never sure how long.

An in-between of broken whispers and touches. A place that was not quite dreaming and not quite awake. A watery mist of cold upon my cheek, barely there, a tenuous voice I could not recognize that seemed to fill my thoughts instead of the room. Fingers laced with my own, then combed through my damp hair.