Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)

by Jim Butcher

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon—perfect.

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn’t coming back?