Scene-Snippet Sunday: Absolution

Welcome to a late version of Scene-Snippet Sunday! Each Sunday, I pull a snippet from one of my novels and offer a little taste. Today's snippet is from Absolution, where I briefly took some of the characters outside of Penton and to my favorite city, New Orleans. Glory has been taken there unconscious, has escaped, and is trying to figure out where she is...

     She didn’t dare wait. The doorknob turned easily, and she flung it open, ran onto a broad wooden porch, and tripped...