In her pink dress, with her golden hair, the girl looks like a rose—if the flower was human. I stepped behind a pillar edging the palace portico as she approached. Dashed inconvenient, but I don’t want to...

Although she’d finished smoothing soil over her seeds and was growing wetter by the second, Gerda was in no hurry to leave her garden. She savored the rain. Too little had fallen the year before, resulting in...

“It’s dangerous to stay here.” Lili gazed at me with red-brown eyes. “We should go.” Leave the comfort of Steve and Talia’s house? I had to calm Lili’s fears before she ruined the good thing we had going...

Tin Eyeswell stood on the precipice of immortality. The only obstacle between him and a hefty cache of Caerulum crystal was a group of peddlers down in the ravine. Collateral damage. Tin nodded at his partner...

The market was usually the loudest place in Tabgha, full of fishmongers waving their latest catches, servants haggling over the price of oxen for their masters, and preachers on street corners trumpeting the...