It was true, wasn't it? Every single word about the earl. Although she'd told herself no one was that black-hearted, as Splendor tried to ignore the damp soaking through the paper-thin soles of Gabe's boots, she knew the extent of that truth.

Dueling was illegal. The thought that Kendall Winterborne could end the day in court on a murder charge was no consolation. Not when the tang of frost sent no shivers up her spine, the caw of crows left her bone marrow untouched. She was ...