If you’re just tuning in, you’ll want to start at the beginning…. “You’re late.” Ma Scrubbs glowered at me across a table littered with dollar bills and scraps of hastily scrawled wagers. To the uninitiated, the mess looked like, well, a mess. But my second-shift supervisor memorized each offering, constantly recalculated the odds, and ensured…

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If you’re just tuning in, you’ll want to start at the beginning…. I wouldn’t dream of heading into battle without my black leather jacket and knee-high boots, but there was more to this gig than fighting. So I showed up at the Arena an hour later in a baby-pink blouse, ruffled neckline drooping low enough…

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If you’re just tuning in, you’ll want to start at the beginning…. For half a second, they wobbled there together atop tilting chunks of concrete. One girl who hid a secret punishable by death. And one predator who was willing and able to perform said execution. Beneath them, I clenched my fist around the strobing…

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Ready to dive into a new adventure? I hope you enjoy the beginning of Wolf’s Bane… The first time my mother spoke to me from beyond the grave, my little sister was defying gravity. “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down,” the disembodied voice of my dead mother noted inside my head just as…

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