In the third installment of the Talisman Wars series, Dakota takes his teenage daughter Kenna on dangerous missions in an attempt to prevent the war from spreading. But an encounter with mutated monstrosities reveals a new and powerful enemy whose plans are as secretive as they are terrifying. <br><br>When Dakota goes missing, Kenna must step up and locate him at any cost. She relies on new and old friends to help her, but the responsibility to save him falls directly on her shoulders. Frantic, she travels across the country in search of her dad ... and is willing to kill anyone who gets in the way.<br><br>Can she find him before it's too late?

The Circus Crown

Doubling over, he wailed into his own arms and blankets. Screaming. Crying. Cursing and shivering. His abdomen ached. His head pounded. If he’d had the ability to eat anything that day, he probably would have vomited. Instead, his empty stomach twisted into knots. And breathing became an exercise in contradictions. He could neither get enough air nor stop quickly inhaling and exhaling. If this wasn’t a panic attack, he didn’t know what one could be.


It took everything Dakota had to turn on a bedside lamp so that he wouldn’t be wrapped up in darkness.


He hardly noticed when Kenna crept into the room and sat on the edge of his bed. She didn’t need to ask to know what happened. So, she made no attempt at it. Her arm found its way around him, and she pressed her face into his shoulder. “I’m sorry.”


Chapter 36