Waking Nightmares

They were finally going home. Then a man Elisa had mourned for more than two years walked back into her life.

Firemind’s impossible return reopens every wound London left behind. He survived the destruction of the sanctuary he shared with Elisa, but the enemies who broke it are still hunting the secret that doomed it: an artifact that can reveal a hidden vault.

So Rishi and Maeril turn away from Paris and follow Elisa and Firemind back into the city that taught them all to live like ghosts.

Their quiet return ends before they reach the walls. A nightmare creature tears through a camp along the road, exposing Rishi and Maeril to London’s authorities. Beneath the streets, one of Firemind’s old enemies is shaking the city apart in search of the vault. Another’s agents are closing on the same prize.

Forced to act in the open while Elisa and Firemind move through old alliances in secret, Rishi and Maeril must find the artifact before either enemy reaches the gold—and before London collapses over the battle below.

To wake the city, the monk and the witch will have to trust the ghosts London made of them.