The Shadows by Cheyenne McCray

Author:Cheyenne McCray
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781939778277
Publisher: Cheyenne McCray LLC

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After paying the taxi driver and watching him until the red of his taillights vanished, Hannah walked alongside the road in the darkness.

Small rocks shifted and crunched beneath her running shoes and she hefted her pack higher on her shoulder. She continued until she reached the hidden road that would take her to the sacred stretch of beach known only to the D’Anu witches.

City lights glittered behind her, and to the north stretched the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge as it carried its much lighter than normal traffic to and from Marin County.

To the east of the bridge was Alcatraz, but right now she didn’t want to think about the horrors that had manifested below it, or the fact the demons weren’t all gone from the city.

Somehow the rest of the demons had to be eliminated. If only she knew how the first bunch had been sent back to Underworld.

She breathed in the salt of the ocean and the scent of nearby cypress trees. Clean, cool air caressed her face and lifted her hair, and waves slammed against the shore.

All seemed so ordinary, solid, real. How could bizarre and horrible things be happening while such normalcy surrounded her?

But the pack over Hannah’s shoulder felt alien now that her scrying tools had been destroyed. The pack weighed her down enough that she felt as if she would tip over. That feeling wasn’t from the extra contents now filling it.

She hadn’t wanted to touch the pack, but she needed it to carry the other tools for the ceremony she had to perform.

The vial and the broken, empty frame remained buried at the bottom of the bag—apparently put there by Cassia. Hannah hadn’t been able to get herself to pull them out and throw them away—to even touch them.

Dragons had always been with her, especially Fire Dragons. Why then had her mirror Dragons left her? Why had the mirror shattered?

Hannah spun a ball of green magic in her palm to help light the way as she took one step after another down the short twisting road.

She missed Banshee and would have brought him out with her if it wasn’t for the fact that a taxi driver wasn’t likely to be too happy with a falcon in his cab.

It had been all she could do to take the necessary supplies from the kitchen and slip out of the warehouse without waking up any of the other witches.

The D’Danann who’d guarded the doors leading outside—she’d been shocked her glamour worked against them because a witch’s glamour normally only worked with humans. Apparently, Garran’s magic infused with her own allowed her to pass by the warrior Fae undetected.

Hannah tried to force down the hard lump that had taken permanent residence in her throat as she came to the sandy, yet rocky footpath veering away from the hidden road.

Even with only the gentle light of her magic, she was sure-footed, walking without conscious thought. Instead, images of her scrying mirror shattering and the Dragons leaving battered her mind.

The time she had spent with Garran was the only thing that had soothed her.

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