answered to Paige Mahoney. I had grown to like Eva. After all, my first name was English, chosen by my mother as she died. For over a decade, no one had called me anything else. It was a quick and living name. But I had lost another one, and my spirit remembered it. A connection to my family. A name I had once shared with fabled warriors and queens. Perhaps that was the reason Jaxon Hall had failed to bind me. Or perhaps the White Binder had finally gone too far, in his arrogance and vanity. Perhaps even his power couldn’t override a silver cord.

