At the multimillionaire’s wife’s funeral, a homeless girl pointed at the casket and screamed, “She’s not dead! I saw him lock her in!” The husband sneered, “Get this lunatic out of here.” But when the lock broke and the lid slid open, what lay inside made the entire crowd freeze in terror…

north.”

I dropped the monitor, the screen cracking against the floorboards. “Load up. We’re going hunting.”

As we piled back into the vehicles, Tala grabbed my sleeve. Her dark eyes were wide with a fierce, protective anxiety. “Are you going to bring her back?”

“I’m going to burn the forest down if I have to,” I told her.

We sped out of the city limits,continue reading …