The Red Fortress, coming in 2019

I thought I’d share a sneak preview of The Red Fortress, the sequel to The Desert Wall. It’s told from Nes’s point of view as she continues the search started in the first book…

When I was little, I choked on a chicken bone once. It scraped the sides of my throat, and the bone and panic closed off my breath. I was afraid I was gonna die. Well that’s what it’s like for me most times with words. They stick in my throat and choke me. It doesn’t matter if they’re words of love or anger. I feel like I’m trying to swallow something too big, except I’m trying to get the words up and out, not down and in.