Drunk and disoriented after her best friend's funeral, Ginevra Bennet stumbles through a door in an ivy-covered wall...and finds herself in a dry wasteland under a dying crimson sun, the only possible shelter a giant stone castle. If it's a hallucination, it's a deadly one; the Keep is full of beauty, luxury, courtly manners--and monsters. The inhabitants rejoice in her arrival, dress her in white, and call her a queen. Greenery returns to their gardens, and the prince of the realm, with his silver-ringed eyes, seems very interested in Gin indeed. It should be the answer to every lonely young woman's dreams. But nothing in Gin's life has ever been what it's seemed. Not her best friend, not her upbringing, and most especially not her nightmares. Drowning, violent death, a stone roof, and the hallucinatory prince have filled her nights, and Gin hopes she's going mad--because the alternative is just too scary to contemplate. Caught in a web of manners, intrigue, and betrayal, Gin has to depend on her sorely tested wits and uncertain sanity. There are Gates at the edge of the wasteland, and if she can escape the castle and its beautiful, terrifying inhabitants, she might just find a few answers and be able to get home. Assuming, of course, home is where she really wants to be...

Moon's Knight













26


Her Own Terms





She had a new nightmare now,
one just as awful as drowning. Gin raced through stone halls of varying sizes, some clean and others shedding shin-high layers of dust in long vanishing updrafts. Stairs unreeled underfoot, plunging downward or sw...

The Door

A Grave

Pity Fuck

Not a Chase

Helluva Bonus

No Crickets

Very Close

The Keep

But We Are Wolves

Here I Stand

Chattersome Joy

Share Glory

Time Enough

The Other Half

A Long Night

First and Foremost

Opposite of Hatred

A Small Thing

Space, Between

Rakkar

Dog With a Bone

The Difference Shows

Can't Complain

Time and Enough

Rescued or Awakened

Perfect Innocence

One-Eighty

Her Own Terms

Uncomfortable Truths

Too Little, Too Much

No Worse Risk

A Small Folly

Taken From the Fire

New Mistakes

Object Lesson

Underdark

Lies and Truth

Light Casts Shadows

Relief of Action

Really Undignified

Questions

Not Good

End of the Road

Grants and Breaks

If Not In Your Arms

The Gates

Overworld

Single Word

For Once

Well Enough Alone