And They'll Come Home: The Legends Chronicles, #2

By K.M. Robinson

Little Hacker Peep
was taken from her sheep
and they don't know where 
to find her.
They won't leave it alone,
they'll bring her home
and they'll drag the Piper
behind them.

When Peep, the leader of hacker group, the Legends, is abducted and held for ransom, she must try to help her best friend, Muffet, to find where she is being held at the Wall and save her people without giving away her true role in the group.

When Arach is separated from his brother, Spider, he must continue to play the Piper's game, convincing him that what remains of his family is working for the villain they are trying to destroy, all while convincing his former rival, Peep, to trust them as he tries to untangles their web of lies.

In this follow up to Along Came A Spider, the first prequel novelette in The Legends Chronicles, we see the story from Peep's perspective as Muffet and Spider are trying to save her, all while getting a brand new look at the story we thought we knew from Along Came A Spider.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crescent Sea Publishing
• Release date: Dec 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386210085

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And They’ll Come Home

ALONG CAME A SPIDER: Prequel Novella One of The Legends Chronicles

Copyright © 2017 by K.M. Robinson.

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Published by Crescent Sea Publishing.

www.crescentseapublishing.com

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Cover designed by Reading Transforms.

Image copyright © K.M. Robinson Photography.

Interior graphics by Reading Transforms.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, brands, trademarks, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep

and doesn’t know where to find them.

Leave them alone

and they’ll come home,

wagging their tails behind them.

YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE DONE THAT. The man grinned at Peep, eyes narrowing when she glared back. That was a bad choice.

So was your outfit, Peep hissed. Her fingers curled like cat claws behind her back, only stretching as far as the zip ties would allow. The plastic bit into her skin.

Settle down, young one. You’re going to be here for a while, so you might as well get comfortable, he smirked at her. "Or at least as comfortable as you can."

The bag over Peep’s head had knocked her hair in her face, pieces of it still lingered, dancing in front of her because of the static caused by the bag being ripped away. She blew a quick puff of air, hoping to move the annoying strands.

What do you want, Piper? Peep growled.

Oh, Piper drawled, so you know me. Your boss taught you well, I see.

Boss?

Shame, he continued. "I would have loved to have offered you a job. You’d have been happy on my team, Peep. Ah, well…we work with what we have.

Settle in, Peep, he walked around her, inspecting her. "Oh. Should I call you Bo?"

If her uncle were still alive, she would have decked him for talking her mother into that name. She hated it and the girlfriend that inspired her uncle just long enough to name her before she disappeared a few days later. That woman never should have been let near the pregnant lady.

Piper turned and walked out the door, leaving Peep to sit in silence. The moment he was gone, Peep pulled at her wrists, trying to free herself. Her arm brushed against a chair as a scraping noise filled the large room.

When she couldn’t break it, she turned her attention to finding an escape once she found the upper hand. The room was brighter than it should have been as the light shifted in through the minimalist windows high above. Metal walls grew into an unimpressive point in the center of the ceiling. The room had a slight blue tint to it. Though nothing like the glow of computer screens, that too was there.

Peep shivered as a cool breeze blew across the floor from where Piper had opened the door moments ago. The hall must be freezing if it were still so strong. The shivering didn’t help break the restraint, even though it might have been violent enough.

As quietly as she could, Peep scooted across the floor, making sure there were no motion sensors or cameras watching her. She assumed if there had been, her movements would have caused someone to check on her; that or they wanted to see how she would try to escape.

Instead, she made her way to a cushier office chair. Laying her head down on the seat, she rested on the floor, waiting for Piper to return. The puffy cap sleeve poked her annoyingly in the face. Her eyes memorized every inch of the room, calculating an escape, searching for weapons, and hoping she could survive her captivity.

She noted a few places to be careful. Knowing Piper, she assumed torture wasn’t out of the question. She pinpointed exactly where she needed to never set foot.