Literature

The ride to Charlotte passed in a blur. All Keller could remember was hanging on while Nissa did some of the wildest driving she’d ever experienced. They went offroad for…

Not for the dragon. She jumped for the tree.It was a good, tall loblolly pine, whose drooping lower branches didn’t look as if they could support a kitten. But Keller…

We were so careful, she thought, setting up wards three days early and having agents watch the house. Nothing got inside during those three days; we were sure of that,…

But she could hear Alex’s sobbing even when she got in the car, and it seemed to follow in her head even when they had left the house behind.They checked…

Keller put her hands to her face. At first, she didn’t recognize what was happening to her. Then she realized that she was crying.She was shaking, Raksha Keller who wasn’t…

Unfortunately, Keller didn’t. “Well just have to work something out,” she said to her team. “Make it as safe as possible, and stick by her every minute.”Winnie and Nissa exchanged…

They were all on their feet by now. Keller’s early warning system was screaming hysterically.”I can’t stand it anymore,” Diana hissed. “What’s going on?” Just then, Nissa said in a…

She’s what?” Keller said, coming out of the bathroom, toweling her hair.”She’s sick,” Winnie said. “Runny nose, little temperature. Looks like a cold. Her mom says she has to stay…

The car coming. Iliana screaming. And the feeling of absolute helplessness-Glass shattered. Keller didn’t understand at first. She thought that Iliana was trying to break the window and get Jaime’s…

Keller reacted instantly and instinctively.She changed. She did it on the leap this time. Rushing the process along, pushing it from behind. She wanted to be entirely a panther by…

Keller was tempted to check the wards, but she knew it wouldn’t do any good. She wasn’t sensitive enough to the witch energies to gauge them. They’d been put up…

Keller faced him squarely.”Yes, sir? Or should I say ‘my lord?” He flinched but tried to hide it. “I should have told you in the beginning.” Keller wasn’t about to…

It was a full-force invasion. Even before the echoes of breaking glass had died, figures in black uniforms were swarming through the window.Dark ninjas, Keller thought. An elite group made…

Everything hung in the balance, and for a moment Keller thought that they had won. Diana’s face looked different, older and more clearly defined. For all her flower-petal prettiness, she…

Winnie’s jaw dropped.”You-you-keep away from me!” Iliana said, and then she got another breath and started shrieking again. She had good lungs, Keller thought The shrieks were not only loud,…

Keller turned her head quickly.Nissa was standing there, cool and imperturbable as always, one hand on her hip. Her short mink-colored hair wasn’t even ruffled; her eyes, just a shade…

They’d gotten a dragon.Keller’s heart was pounding. Somehow, somewhere, the people of the Night World had found one and awakened him. And they’d paid him-bribed him-to join their side. Keller…

The mall was so peaceful. There was no hint of the terrible thing that was about to happen. It looked like any other shopping mall inNorth Carolina on a Sunday…

Maggie held Sylvia gently. Or at least, she knelt by her and tried to hold herasbest she could without disturbing the piece of broken spear that wasstill lodged in Sylvia’s…

Introduction The discussion of the youth justice policy in Britain has re-gained importance in the aftermath of the August 2011 riots, which spread across London and other major cities in…