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 person who’d stabbed him laughed, a dark, ugly sound, and climbed off him. Kelwyn lay helplessly on his back in the bed, blood making a spreading crimson stain on the bedding beneath him. The stake seemed to rob him of all energy. He wondered, then, if this was it, if he was dying. He tried to pluck at it, to pull it out. It was night, if he could remove it from the wound, he would begin to heal, but his hands had no strength. Both hands now clawed at the stake, but he still couldn’t budge it, the wood was slippery with blood and it was driven so deeply that even with his full strength it would have been an effort to pull it out.


Chapter 84