The rooms were full of serpents.
Sam and Alex have fought before. They have bled together, grieved together, carried things no two people should have to carry. But some words, once said, leave marks that don't close.
He didn't mean it. She knows he didn't mean it. That's almost worse.
Lila is watching both of them.
As the truth of what happened begins to surface - what was found, what was trusted, what was left behind - Sam and Alex will have to decide whether what broke between them can hold one more time. Because what's coming won't wait for them to be ready.
It never does.
Ember is the second volume of Moon Gun Sam: The Dolphin. It begins where Vow ends - and does not flinch.
For readers of The Sparrow, Babel, and Gilead.
Hopecore, with teeth.