Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose.

She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need.

Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.

What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn’t I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body,...

Listen up, Nic,” she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. “If you die on me out here, so help me I’ll hold seances and pester you. I won’t give you a moment’s peace...

You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core....

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive...