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

The glowing globe that Velanis had conjured to light their way flared brighter as he floated it into the center of the cavern, clearly illuminating everything, save for the stark black shadows that the stone pillars cast. Also stark black were the mouths of half a dozen other tunnels leading into the cavern.


“Wow.” Kelwyn’s voice echoed faintly back from the far walls as he said what everyone else was thinking. He could fly in here, it was that big.


“Ah, I don’t want to alarm anyone,” said Eldin, “but there’s something coming down the stairs behind us. Several somethings.”


Kelwyn, meanwhile, noticed motion in one of the black cave mouths. “There’s something over there too,” he called out, and a moment later a zombie came stumbling out into the cavern. It moved with jerky, unnatural motions, but it wasn’t shuffling, it was fast, which was very, very worrying. More worrying was that several more emerged behind it, and there was motion in some of the other cave mouths.


Chapter 64