Blood Echo
Christopher Rice
"Charlotte Rowe’s even tone sends a ripple of new energy through the room, something between wonder and nervousness."
"Charlotte Rowe’s even tone sends a ripple of new energy through the room, something between wonder and nervousness."
"The hospital bed was hovering a foot above the floor."
"I have not always, of course, been Brother Benedict of the Crispinite Order of the Novum Mundum."
"Your government needs your assistance, Ms. Rawls."
"'So, your letter of recommendation from your previous head is glowing.'"
"Once again, Irja was telling the little boy who crouched motionless next to the stove that he shouldn’t worry, that his grandpa would be back soon, any time now, really."
"Have you ever questioned the long shuttered front of an old Italian house..."
"Karolinska University Hospital is one of the largest in Europe, with more than fifteen thousand staff members."
"The moment I entered my second-floor apartment after work, my eyes went to the small dark-walnut stand to the left of the door in anticipation."
"It was the hardest thing Jenna had ever done."
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