San Juan: Fire Keeps Its Own Calendar

On San Juan night, standing at a Costa Blanca bonfire, Tarmo Amellal thinks about the four fires that changed everything. One of them he still won’t discuss.

The COMC Files Book V chapter 23

Elena lay there, wrapped in a blanket on a makeshift bed in the far corner of a warehouse. Her hair spilt messily over the pillow, her lips parted in the vulnerable slackness of sleep. The only light came from a single streetlamp, its beam cutting through the fractured glass high on the wall. He stepped…