Kelwyn Grayson is just one more faceless runaway on the streets of Tower City. Among elves, gnolls, and dragons, one winged boy fades into the background of life in the Eternal Kingdom.  But when he cuts the purse of the handsome were-lion Harun Rashid, he finds himself dragged out of the crowd.<br><br>Rather than a cell, however, Harun offers a helping hand to set Kelwyn on the road to a respectable, peaceful life ... if he could just bring himself to stop flirting shamelessly with Harun, keep his sticky fingers to himself, and avoid bringing the wrath of a powerful, mad vampire down on his head.<br><br>But even faced with Kelwyn's death -- or undeath -- Harun will not give up on him, and Kelwyn will not give up on finding his way to sharing that peaceful life with Harun.  Two men, love, and magic are bound and determined to find their way to their shared dream of a future -- and family.

Blood and Fire

Indeed the window barely slowed him down, it was latched rather than locked. A simple flat pick pushed the latch open and he pulled it up and slipped inside. It took a little longer to find the office he wanted, but Elania had told him enough to know it when he saw it. There were ranks of filing cabinets along one side of the room, but what he wanted would be locked away.


The big desk had a nice, obvious locked drawer. Surely it wouldn’t be that easy, and he’d have to search for hidden drawers? But when he picked it open—a two-pin tumbler lock, and an absurdly loose one, he could have picked it with a pair of toothpicks—he found exactly what he’d been told to look for.


Chapter 22