Once Upon a Dark October

Once Upon a Dark October

Author: Jessie Thomas Listening Length: 15h 12m
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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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Chapter Seven

I t seemed my life wasn’t the last thing the vampire had tried to claim.

Her scent ambushed me when I neared the bed, blooming stronger, sharper. I latched onto the careless bloodstains on the floorboards beside it, dried and crusting, first mistaken as merely shadows. “Morrigan…her blood.”

“There’s stains over here, too. She slipped in through the window.” Her fingers ran along the large gouges in the sill. Instead of breaking the glass and alerting my neighbors, she would’ve used a blade to pry at the lock. “Her scent is recent, though the bloodstains are old enough to have dulled. She needed somewhere to shelter from daylight. To stay away from her coven-house until she finished her task or decided on what lie was best to tell Sonia.”