Lethal Rapport

ROWAN’S POV

“You’ve been in here for hours,” she says, drifting closer. “Agnes said you’d holed up with my grandmother’s old things. I did wonder.”

I snap the book shut, dragging it off the table and into my lap.

“Good for you. Do you usually track guests through the house, or am I just special?”

“Prickly.” Vera tilts her head, her bright, unsettling eyes dropping to the leather cover in my lap. “