Chapter 21
BLOODLINE
Everly Grey survived the summer. Now she has to survive the year.
She's back at Nyxhaven under Catalina's terms. The four men at their fraternity houses with tracking marks on their hands. One supervised hour together every morning. Everly alone at Callister House.
A year at Nyxhaven does something to a person.
Callister House does something too. The taxidermied animals in the hallways track her every move.
The upstairs corridor doesn't always take her where she means to go.
And the graduate students in Wheeler's program keep losing chunks of time—whole sessions, whole conversations, gone.
Something is happening to them. She's not supposed to notice, but she does.
One hour a day under surveillance. They manage more than that.
She's also the only person on campus whose eyes won't slide off the building next door. The glamour works on everyone else. Her grimoire sight cuts right through it.
And what's buried inside it is the reason grimoires have been dying for a century.
Then Helena Grimoire finds her. Ancient. Imprisoned. The last grimoire who came before her.
She has research. She has a plan. She says Everly can finish what she couldn't—end the sacrifice, restore what was taken, build something new.
Everly believes her.
She really shouldn't have.