In Any Light (The Rowan Harbor Cycle Book 7) by Sam Burns

Author:Sam Burns [Burns, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

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Nightfall

It was almost four in the afternoon by the time Isla got back to Madame Cormier’s house. Aunt Annie had known what she was talking about; the shop had been quiet, and the only time someone had come in, it had been for help that Annie had been happy to provide.

Lachlan and Salli hadn’t come back by the time Isla had left, and she decided it was a good sign. Someone who dropped by said it was all over town that they were in the diner, and they had left together sometime after noon. They were probably at Salli’s place, having all the sex they hadn’t had in the years they had been mooning over each other.

Isla had just dropped her keys into the wooden bowl where Madame had told her to keep them, when something occurred to her.

Salli was so busy with Lachlan, she’d likely forgotten the whole matter of the strange siren in the harbor.

She pulled her phone out of her pocket, but by the time she was looking down at the screen, she had decided she wasn’t going to call Salli. The two of them deserved some nice, uninterrupted alone time. It had been too long in coming, and Isla sure as hell wasn’t going to be the person who took it away from them.

The problem was that there were no other sirens to do the job. There weren’t a lot of denizens of the sea in town. Isla thought the boy who worked nights at the yarn shop might be a selkie, but who was to say that would make any difference at all? Maybe sirens and selkies were enemies. She didn’t know and didn’t have an easy way to find out.

She looked down at her phone again.

She could call Jesse. He dealt with town security, and he could surely handle any siren who had shown up. He wasn’t much for kid gloves and subtlety, though, and might just assume that anyone who was making camp near Rowan Harbor was an enemy. Isla couldn’t blame him for thinking it with the year they were having, but she didn’t want to hurt a creature that was only trying to live its life. Devon was in the middle of working the afternoon shift at his store, so she didn’t want to bother him. Her mother was the least diplomatic person she’d ever known, and she was out of town anyway. Cassidy was trapped indoors for the day, and probably asleep. The various witches she knew had lives and jobs and didn’t know any more about sirens than she did—maybe less, in fact.

She slid her phone back into her pocket.

Salli had made it sound so simple. Find the siren, find out why she was there, tell her to move along.

Surely Isla could manage something that simple on her own.

She picked up Madame Cormier’s keys, the ones with the key fob for the shiny car in the garage. Surely the mayor wouldn’t mind her borrowing Madame’s car just to go to the campground closest to winter cove.

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