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Chapter One

Stalking a time traveler is hard work, even if you are one Especially when said traveler totally has you ed behind a column to avoid a spray of bullets

The woht beam in my direction “Sure,” she said amiably “Hold still for a second”

Yeah, right

My name is Cassie Palmer and a lot of people think I’m not the sharpest pencil in the box My strawberry blond hair, which usually resembles Shirley Temple’s in a windstory cheeks and tip-tilted nose azes never make it up that far But du that one

My oeapon—a new 9nored it Year

s froe that would save my life I kind of wanted her to be around to write it Not to ood way to ensure that they don’t want to talk to you, and we really needed to have a chat

“When did the Guild start e warmer

I stayed utterly still, pressed against the back of one of the wooden coluo, it pretty much sucked, but there weren’t a lot of alternatives The cellar’s walls were stone, except for areas that had been patched with brick The ceiling ood and flat, I guess because it served as the floor of the building above And that was it, except for a few old barrels, some mildew and a lot of dark

Even eto be tough for us to have a conversation if I never said anything “Look, you’ve obviously an, only to have the wall behind me peppered with bullets

Stinging particles of brick and old razed my cheek because I felt a trickle of blood start to slide downand un I dragged it back I wasn’t here to shoot her, I reminded myself sternly