From the author of the astounding must-read novel Daughter of Smoke and Bone, comes a vividly imaginative short story, Hatchling (from the award-winning short story collection Lips Touch: Three Times).
In HATCHLING, six days before Esme's fourteenth birthday, her left eye turns from brown to blue. She little suspects what the change heralds, but her small safe life begins to unravel at once. What does the beautiful, fanged man want with her, and how is her fate connected to a mysterious race of demons?
Fates entwines between lovers, gods, immortal demons and a little girl.
