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 Twenty-Four

I must have been in the grips of a horrid nightmare, the dregs of the previous workday seeping into my dreams. Screeching pulled me into that lucid in-between place, a realm of shadows and light, until I realized the bats screaming weren’t a figment conjured from my restless terror. They were shrieking somewhere close.

A leathery wing clipped my cheek.

“Morrigan?” I’d called out to her before I had even opened my eyes, her name falling from my lips in a slurred daze. “What is it?”