Kira's Bonus Content Pages

By Kira Deveraux. A free reader bonus.

THE RECKONING AT THE GATE

A Firebound to the War King bonus scene

Venna POV

Ashpeak's gate is smaller than she expected.

Venna has spent a month hearing about this stronghold the way you hear about a rival country, all edges and old grief, and standing at the base of its wall with Castor beside her and the whole Varek party at their backs, she finds it is just stone. Old stone, well kept, warmer than Skarrow Hold's grey. A gate that has been attacked twice...

By Kira Deveraux. A free reader bonus.

The Ten-Minute Clock ### A Corrigan's Girl bonus scene — Jude's POV

The van smelled like cold coffee and somebody else's cigarettes, four owners back, baked so deep into the upholstery that no amount of federal budget was ever going to get it out. I'd stopped noticing it around week two. Tonight I noticed everything. The smell, the hum of the equipment rack, the specific temperature of my own hands, which had gone cold the second Marin's voice came...

By Kira Deveraux. A free reader bonus.

The Space the Bell Left

A Root Sovereign bonus scene — Ressaline

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The bell is still moving through me when I reach the stair.

Three short strikes, one held long. South road, at speed. I know what my hands are doing before I've finished deciding to do it: torch from the bracket, count of the strikes repeated back so the relay post knows it's been heard, boots already finding the worn groove in the stone that four hundred years of wardens have worn smoother...

By Kira Deveraux. A free reader bonus.

The Letter in December

A bonus scene from Controlled Damage — The Halcyon Group Series, Book Two

Kira Deveraux

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The letter came on a Tuesday, which was the day Fran Delacorte did her post.

She had done it that way for thirty-one years at Bellwether and she had not seen a reason to stop when she left. Tuesday morning, kitchen table, the good knife from the drawer by the sink, and everything opened properly rather than torn, because a woman who spent three...

By Kira Deveraux. A free reader bonus.

DARK OBSESSION

Bonus Content

Kira Deveraux

Two exclusive companion pieces for newsletter subscribers

1. The Override — Beckett's POV, eight weeks after the final chapter

2. The Sentence — Piper's POV, six months after the last page

THE OVERRIDE

Bonus scene · Beckett's point of view · Eight weeks after the final chapter

There were four people alive who could enter my apartment without my knowing in advance that they were coming, and until eight weeks ago all...

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...

THE CROSSROADS

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

Aric’s POV. The day Coll Bray drove a furious seventeen-year-old to the edge of the border with a winter coat and seven words — and the morning, eleven years later, the words finally land. Bring something to wipe your eyes with.

There is a chair in the council chamber that no one sits in.

They draped it the day after they pulled Coll Bray out of the Greywood mud, a length of grey wool over the...

The Standing Order

There is an account I have never closed.

Nora knows about it now, the way she knows everything, not because I told her but because she reads the things I leave undone the way other people read the things I do. We were going through the apartment’s finances in the spring — she audits our life the way she audits a disclosure, with a thoroughness that ought to be exhausting and is instead, God help me, one of the great comforts of my second one — and she came to a line that had...

The Morning After the War

A Hostile Intent bonus scene — Dominic’s point of view

Kira Deveraux · The Power Play Series · reader-magnet bonus (~1,500 words)

I woke before her, which never happens, and lay still so it would keep not happening for as long as possible.

Six weeks since the vote. Five since I’d stopped pretending the second toothbrush in her bathroom was a logistical accident. The light through Lena’s bedroom windows came in low and gold over the river, that early hour when the city...

THE MARKET

A bonus scene from Bloodsworn to the Rogue Alpha

Kira Deveraux

Two years before she corners him in a mine shaft, Raith scents his mate for the first time across a crowded market, and he does the thing he will spend the next two years unable to forgive himself for. He turns around and walks away.

He has not meant to be in the town at all. It is a bad winter three years into an exile he has told no one is a choice, and he has come down out of the high passes because a rogue cannot make...

THE FIRST FIRE

A bonus scene from Ashmarked to the Exiled Dragon

Kira Deveraux

Caen wakes before her, which he always does, and lies still in the grey light of the archive that is not only an archive anymore, and watches his mate sleep with her boots off and her back to the wall and one hand open on the furs between them, and thinks that he will never be used to it, the open hand, the dropped guard, the fact of her choosing to be unarmored within reach of a dragon she once swore she would spend...