The groan of a ?oorboard as he slipped out of his room. But now she wore the vixen’s beauty on her human skin, and she had turned into a woman without him really noticing it.The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. Beautiful, like anything that was wild and free. In his eyes she’d always been beautiful, even when she’d still been the scrawny little thing that didn’t want to pick the burrs from her hair. “And I didn’t know when you might be back.” Yes, she’d grown up, even if he could still see the girl. “Since when are you going treasure hunting without me?” I missed you – he wanted to add,īut her glance was cool, like it always was when he’d been away too long. That feather’s mine.” Fox’s eyes were still full of sleep and she flinched as she propped herself up on her injured arm. Chanute had transported a lot of treasure that way. Whatever was touched with that feather would immediately disappear and only reappear where the feather was put down.

Jacob ran his fingers over the soft down that covered the quill.

Just like Chanute had also taught him: whatever you find for your clients, always make sure you keep some for yourself. On the nightstand next to her bed lay a white feather. To find it, Jacob is going to have to beat out a Goyl treasure hunter who is also searching for the prized crossbow- and somehow convince Fox to do whatever it takes to save him.' A crossbow that could kill thousands, or heal one, when shot through the heart. An item so legendary that not even MirrorWorlders believe it exists. And yet hope after hope is extinguished.Īfter months of fruitless searching, Jacob journeys to Mirrorland one last time to deliver the bad news to Fox. But there they hear of one last possibility. He’s tried everything to shake the fairy curse that traded his life for his brother’s - legends like the All-Healing Apple, the Well of Eternal Youth, the blood of a northern djinn. Nerron, the Bastard, becomes his shadow and a tenacious foe.Ĭan Love Save Jacob Reckless? Jacob Reckless has only a few months left to live. A magical crossbow is supposed to save his life, but Jacob is not the only one searching for it. This is going to be his very own treasure hunt. The moth on Jacob’s breast is getting darker.

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