Eve of Light: Blood Noon

Haunted, cursed, or losing his mind — on the verge of seventeen, his own body is becoming the evidence.

Robert Goldner was five when his mother, wine in hand at one of her parties, spilled her confession in front of her friends: he was unwanted, unplanned, the ruin of her life.

She was murdered on his eleventh birthday, and the word she left him —...

Holy assassin or lab experiment — either way, the target dies.

They strap her upright at a formal dinner party, in a gown she doesn't remember owning, and the man in the white tuxedo introduces himself the way he apparently must every time: I am God's metaphysician.

Artemisia Wright is the private clinic's prize subject. Inside a chamber shaped...