Chapter 1

I thought I’d share a sneak peek of the first chapter of Mist & Shadow! When I first started writing the novel the summer before my senior year of college, I began with Chapter 1 and proceeded onward chronologically, chapter by chapter.

It’s undergone quite a few revisions and tweaks, and it’s probably the chapter I’ve reread the most! (My favorite though is Chapter 9: Old Haunts, which actually wasn’t part of my story outline but came out spontaneously. In that chapter, Daphne heads into the wo...