Chapter 40 Lanterns and Shadows
Lanterns and Shadows
The weight of Despoina’s words pressed against Lorraine’s chest even as she rose from the low chair. Her fingers still tingled faintly where the woman’s hand had rested, her warning echoing like a bell: Love can be a lantern*,* or it can be a blindfold*...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Stairway to Heaven
2. Chapter 2 Just Tonight
3. Chapter 3 Sweating Bullets
4. Chapter 4 Unleash the Beast
5. Chapter 5 Wings of Darkness

6. Chapter 6 Back in the Fire

7. Chapter 7 Before the Skies Come Down

8. Chapter 8 Devil You Know

9. Chapter 9 Stigmata

10. Chapter 10 Born Into the Flame

11. Chapter 11 The Devil in the Tower

12. Chapter 12 Tides

13. Chapter 13 The Master of the House

14. Chapter 14 Flight into the Dark

15. Chapter 15 Offering Plate

16. Chapter 16 Clawing at Skin

17. Chapter 17 Playing with Fire

18. Chapter 18 Burned

19. Chapter 19 Awakening

20. Chapter 20 Departure

21. Chapter 21 Danger Zone

22. Chapter 22 Thin Air

23. Chapter 23 Behind the Velvet Walls

24. Chapter 24 Ghosts of the Past

25. Chapter 25 Walk of Witches

26. Chapter 26 Fire on the Hill

27. Chapter 27 Confessions in the Dark

28. Chapter 28 A Rotten Kingdom

29. Chapter 29 Schemes in the Shadows

30. Chapter 30 Roads of Fire

31. Chapter 31 Smoke on the Water

32. Chapter 32 Not a Beacon, A Heartbeat

33. Chapter 33 Smoke, Salt, and Shadows

34. Chapter 34 Intruder in the Study

35. Chapter 35 Betrayal in the Walls

36. Chapter 36 Fragile Reconciliation

37. Chapter 37 Dreams Over Breakfast

38. Chapter 38 Surprise in French Quarter

39. Chapter 39 Names in the Dust

40. Chapter 40 Lanterns and Shadows

41. Chapter 41 A Different Kind of Magic
42. Chapter 42 At Odds
43. Chapter 43 Seductress
44. Chapter 44 Storms on the Horizon

45. Chapter 45 Names in the Shadows

46. Chapter 46 A Key in Blood

47. Chapter 47 Beast of Burden

48. Chapter 48 Cracks in the Walls

49. Chapter 49 Surviving the Storm

50. Chapter 50 Lanterns at Dusk

51. Chapter 51 The Bargain

52. Chapter 52 Circles Within Circles

53. Chapter 53 Anchors

54. Chapter 54 Pattern

55. Chapter 55 Sugar on the Tongue, Thunder in the Chest

56. Chapter 56 Exhale

57. Chapter 57 Shadows in the Rain

58. Chapter 58 The Bridge

59. Chapter 59 Honey on the Knife

60. Chapter 60 The Seam

61. Chapter 61 Poetry from the King

62. Chapter 62 Trial by Moonlight

63. Chapter 63 Prophecy

64. Chapter 64 Moon Sisters

65. Chapter 65 Cloaked

66. Chapter 66 Whispers in the Storm

67. Chapter 67 The Omen in the Glass

68. Chapter 68 Confessions

69. Chapter 69 Shadows of the Bayou

70. Chapter 70 A Door in the Water

71. Chapter 71 Better Together

72. Chapter 72 Strategies

73. Chapter 73 Let Me Remember

74. Chapter 74 Unleashed

75. Chapter 75 Unname What's Been Named

76. Chapter 76 What the Shadows Take

77. Chapter 77 Cross the Threshold

78. Chapter 78 The Storm Descends

79. Chapter 79 Ascension

80. Chapter 80 The Night the Storm Let Go

81. Chapter 81 Scars of the Storm

82. Chapter 82 A Door Closed, A Door Opened

83. Chapter 83 Weight of Love

84. Chapter 84 Shadows and Light

85. Chapter 85 Epilogue- The Water Remembers


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