A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)

by Brigid Kemmerer

He unwraps the fabric, spreading it across the small table. His eyes flick up to meet mine. “You said you will not sleep. Do you care to play?” In his hands sits a deck of cards.

When I wrote this scene with Grey, when he first plays cards with Harper, it's the first time I realized, "Wow, he's going to be a bigger player than I thought." I knew I loved him from the start, but this is the first time he really leapt off the page for me.