This story takes place in January, during Heart of the Raven [in the Amaranthine Saga]. It begins in Illinois, the day after Zuri's story ends.

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Aine surveyed the vampire. A local, named Bayard, He looked like a storybook prince, with delicate features, long blond hair, and ice blue eyes. The kind of vampires they used to make. "And you saw it?"

"I did. He killed two people, fangs visible and all. Then he disappeared. Left witnesses. The human ...