Lethal Leverage

A strangled scream ripped from Bianca as the landing splintered beneath her heels. Instinct surged. She flailed for anything solid—banister, wall, even smoke itself—desperate to stop the plunge that yawned open in front of her.

A heartbeat later, a hand punched through the haze and clamped around her wrist. The fall snapped to a halt so violently her shoulder burned, leaving her body dangling over