The Keeper’s Son

A Shatterfield bonus scene, the story Ressaline does not tell the Warden

Ressaline

I have told the Warden-Commander a warning, and the warning is true, and it is not the whole of it, because the whole of it is mine and I have carried it thirty years and I do not hand a thirty-year weight to a man on the night before he sails toward the same water that made it. So he has the warning. He does not have Joss. This is Joss, set down at last, on paper, for no one, because a woman...

THE SECOND FAMILY — Book 3 · Kira Deveraux BONUS SCENE (reader-magnet) · Elias POV · ~1,500 words · (AI-sanitized)

Gated bonus scene for the newsletter/reader magnet. Elias POV, eight years before the events of THE SECOND FAMILY — the night the name went into the dark. Referenced in Ch 6 and Ch 22. Consistent with book canon (Danny Vasquez lost by forty minutes; the daughter vanished off-books using Marchetti reach; the guarantor paper).

The First Vanish

Elias — eight years ago

I have never told...

THE SEVERANCE CIRCLE

A free companion scene to THE FRACTURE COURTS (The Thornbound Chronicles) · Kira Deveraux

Caelan’s POV — the night of the chalk, from the events of Thornbound Crown, Chapter Twenty. The bond is still compelled here. Nothing between them is chosen yet. This is the night that changes.

She draws the circle in chalk on the vault floor, and I stand at the edge of the lamplight and let her believe I am calm.

This is the one thing no one has ever caught me at, in twenty-five...