The creature’s jaw unhinged and dropped wide as a mouthful of
sharply pointed fangs emerged from within.
Alfred was tired. It had been a long, hard war, and though he had won it, he had barely rested since, knowing that the peace would not last long. For an English king, he had learned, it never did. There was always another war.
He had spent his entire reign defending his homeland and his faith against the hordes of Norse barbarians from across the sea. For nearly a century, they had been arriving in fleets of longships, raiding England’s coastline and laying s. . .
Chapter 1
Kimmi Carter had been looking forward to this night all week, and she was not, not going to let the events from earlier in the week get her down. Yes, it was unfortunate, tragic even, that one of her classmates had been found brutally murdered, and the killer – another classmate – had committed suicide afterward, but she and Ben had been planning this night for over a month – ever since she found out that her parents would be leaving her home alone for the weekend to atten. . .