The old woman's scream scraped down my bones. Dissolved every last shred of confidence. Chased me faster down the servants' hallway I'd just come from. Somewhere a clock chimed, a low, sinister reminder that I didn't have much time.

What if I was hurtling down the stairs toward something I didn't want to find? A nightmare worse than my current one?

When I threw open the door at the bottom, I slid to a halt seconds before slamming into a glass wall a few feet in front ...