The Inn: Dark Court Sisters, #2

By Ronel Janse van Vuuren

Blood.

Shadows.

The scent of an old foe.

 

As a hunter for the High Council of Faerie, Kelly is sent to investigate strange disappearances in the town of Bremen. She stays away from The Inn, though: it calls to her warring nature. But as leads run thin, she uses the help of a young deathfae to gain entrance to the fae-run place.

 

She is confronted with her heritage and her past in her quest to bring peace to the region.

 

But can she do that without giving in to the shadows that call to her?

 

Scroll up to find out how Kelly deals with the dark dealings happening at The Inn.

 

*This is the second book in the Dark Court Sisters series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ronel Janse van Vuuren
• Release date: Nov 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393741428

Book preview

Kelly stepped from the shadows, allowing humans and fae to see her. Her Glamour made her look like a twenty-year-old mortal. Even her clothes screamed youth and foolishness. Anything to look non-threatening. Everything she wasn’t.

She remembered the town from her younger days, back when horses were still the main source of transportation. A motorcycle screeched past. A few wolf whistles came from across the street. She paid them no heed.

‘You really don’t want to be in this town,’ a young man dressed all in black with piercings over his face said from the shadow of a building.

‘I don’t scare easily.’ She kept the boy’s abyss-black gaze.

She’d done everything she could to find the cause of the disappearances. Everything she knew had failed her. There was one other alternative... Kelly breathed deeply. No. She had found the boy.

‘Good luck,’ the youth said and turned away.

‘I need a guide...’ she said before he left.

‘Why?’ he asked. She could smell that he was now suspicious of her.

‘I’m looking for someone. Though I’m not sure how to find him...’

‘We all live life in darkness, waiting for the sun of love that hardly ever shines.’

‘He isn’t even a reflection of the sun.’

‘Then why do you seek him?’

Terror washed over her. She stepped into the shadow of the building as two of the Wild Hunt raced past on their steeds. The boy stared after the invisible fae.

She watched the young half-deathfae, assessing his strength. The creature she was hunting reminded her of one she’d only encountered twice in the last millennium, but involving other fae had never been his style. No. This was someone even worse than him.

‘The one I seek kills mortals with impunity and curses fae with his misdeeds.’

The boy narrowed his eyes. Different emotions ran over his face. Kelly waited. She knew no deathfae, even a halfling, could allow anyone to encroach on their territory.

‘I’ll help you. But