One More Century to Ask
Sinopsis
Nika Bevk has brought ships into Trieste since 1613, and under the Anchor Law of the Roadstead — the port's vampire polity — she is owed one Asking per century: one mortal she may offer eternity, who then belongs to her forever. She let 1926 lapse and swore never to own anyone the way her maker owns her; then Nevio Cattarin, fourth-generation keeper of the Faro della Vittoria, finds her face in his great-grandfather's logbook and refuses to be afraid of her. When the Roadstead's harbormaster writes Nevio's name in the ledger to be Asked at dawn on the solstice, Nika learns that the lighthouse her keeper has been winding all his life is the ward over the stone that anchors every vampire in the port — and that saving him means renouncing forever the only power that could keep him.
Capítulos 6 de 6 capítulos gratis
- 1 Two Seconds Slow Gratis
- 2 Boarding Ladder Gratis
- 3 One Winter Gratis
- 4 The Cold Store Gratis
- 5 Four Generations of Keepers Gratis
- 6 Saltwater Gratis