Midnight Reckoning

Splendor's still bleeding. Months after the explosion tore the city in half, we're still finding bits of rock and bone in the rubble, still living in a place held together with caution tape and grief.

Humans and creatures are packed into the same wounded blocks, and everyone's looking for someone to blame.

Lucky me, my eyes turn red when I'm angry now. Vampire thing. New development. One more piece of myself I don't fully recognize anymore.

My new partner Henry actually asked for this assignment, God help him, and he hasn't run yet, which either makes him brave or an idiot. Probably both. He asks a lot of questions I don't have good answers for. Questions like what happened with Knight, why we're not together anymore, why I flinch every time someone says his name.

Here's the answer I never say out loud: I watched Knight sleep with another woman. He was under a glamour. He didn't choose it, not really, and I know that, but it doesn't matter, because I still saw it happen, and some things don't unsee themselves just because you understand why they happened.

I don't know if I want Knight back. I don't know if I want myself back, the version of me that existed before all of this. I just know the city's not the only thing waiting on a reckoning, and neither am I.

Midnight Reckoning is Book Ten in the Knight's Fae series, where surviving the disaster is only half the battle, and forgiving the people you love is the other half nobody warns you about.