Zekh

Read it here first. Zekh is out on Silver Thorns today, weeks before it reaches Amazon and the other stores on December 10.

NOELLE

I'm a nurse. I sit with the dying. I never ask anyone for anything.

My new patient is a stubborn old man with a failing heart, a tie he insists on wearing in bed, and a family that would burn this city down for him.

Then a stranger steps out of the dark in my brother's apartment with a hammer and a deal. My brother's debt disappears. All I have to do is tell him everything that happens inside that house.

Every night. In his truck. With my hands where he can see them.

He's cold. He's cruel. He wants to know if a dying man still laughs.

I should be terrified of him.

I'm terrified of how badly I want his hand on my throat again.

ZEKH

I grew up across town from a family that never said my name.

They got the money, the power, and the father. I got a closed bakery, a dead mother, and a very long memory.

The old man in that house is running out of time. Before he goes, he's going to know exactly what he did.

The nurse is my way in. A pair of eyes. Something to use and throw away.

She was never supposed to look at me like I'm the one who needs saving.

And when the war I started comes up that hill on the coldest night of the year, I'll have to decide whose son I really am.

This is the fourth book in The Koslov Brothers Series. Reading order:

Alek.

Leo.

Ares.

Zekh.