All practice law, but they use a different set of rules, tools, and talents. It was like the difference between criminal defense lawyers and real-estate attorneys. But I had a gift for reading the emotional vibes of the living.

Some psychics specialized in necromancy, while others relied on dreams and premonitions. And I could only do that by getting inside his head. My goal: to determine whether Frost-a man the press had named Dr. However, for the next month, I’d be working undercover. After months of legwork and a gazillion surveillance hours, I’d finally found a way inside Braeden Frost’s house-me, Denieve Knight, psychic detective. The man seemed as elusive as Alice’s white rabbit.īut patience was a virtue, and mine eventually paid off. Every picture I’d taken-and I’d shot dozens-came out blurry or obscured somehow. Photographing him proved even more challenging. Whenever he ventured out, he blended in with the crowd or vanished into traffic as if by magic. Mile-high gates, cameras, and motion-sensors abounded. Though he didn’t have a security detail or bodyguards, he’d sealed the outer perimeter of his Georgian-style mansion tighter than Buckingham Palace. Waited for a chance to breach his inner circle.

But, there, the silver answer rang-“Not Death, but Love.” Straightway I was ’ware, so weeping, how a mystic shape did move behind me, and drew me backward by the hair And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,-“Guess now who holds thee!”-“Death,” I said. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.Ĭheck Places and Spaces in the Table of Contents for The Darkest Frost, Volume 2 Preorder link Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Within Temptation by Tanya Holmes