Life in Dawnlight Town was unlike anything Shen Ye had ever imagined. He had assumed he would stay three days at most—just long enough to let the storm pass—then move on. He had already mapped a route in his mind: east through the wooded hills, then a detour toward a remote fishing village where shadowfolk agents would never think to look. Three days became five. Five became ten. He could not leave. Not because he could not—but because he discovered he did not want to. The Lu family's yard ...