MARA'S POV

What is worse than someone knocking on your bedroom door in the middle of your peaceful sleep? Someone banging on your door interrupting your peaceful sleep.

The sound jolted through me like a punch to the ribs impatient, and impossible to ignore.

For a beat I lay perfectly still, pretending the noise was nothing more than some distant thunder, but the banging came again, closer this time, and the fragile bubble of calm I’d clung to in the dark popped.

"Mara, wake up." Lyra's voice ...