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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I ’d only managed to get back into my chemise when the noise outside our door rose to a concerning volume. Where were my boots? Morrigan had buttoned her overcoat and was struggling to fasten her trousers.

“What is it? A fire?” I breathed in deep, stretched my vampiric senses. Blood and sweat, faint candle wax…mildly unpleasant body fluids. “I don’t smell any smoke.”

“Not a fire,” Morrigan answered in that slow, worrying tone of creeping realization that sent a tremor of cold panic through my veins. I hadn’t liked that tone—it never meant anything good. “I hear bat wings. And they don’t belong to our coven.”