CLOAK OF SHARDS excerpt

Still editing CLOAK OF SHARDS. Let’s close out the week with a short excerpt:

“Do you think Nora Chandler will be with them?”

“I know that she is.” I had heard Nora in the background of some of the calls.

“Will she have a problem that I shot her in the stomach last year?”

I looked at Neil. “Are you planning on doing it again?”

“I’d rather avoid that if at all possible.”

“She’ll give you a hard time about it,” I said. “And she’ll give you a clever little nickname that sounds innocuous but is probably insulting if you think about it long enough.”

“Oh, yeah? What does she call you?”

I sighed and tapped the orange stripes on the sleeve of my black jacket. “I was wearing this the day we met. So I’m the tigress.”

Neil snorted out a laugh.

“It’s not that funny.”

“A tigress could rip someone’s face off,” said Neil. “And I have literally seen you burn a hole in someone’s head.”

-JM