Author: JB McDonald and Zach McCallum

• Chapter 9: The Heist and Its Aftermath

  May 18th, 1929 Nicoletta tried to get her scattered mind to focus. They’d been over this a dozen times in briefing, so many times she thought she’d never forget even…

• Chapter 8: Dancing Through the First Mission

  May 18th, 1929 Nicoletta had never ridden in one of the new cars before, the ones that could go seventy-two miles per hour down a straightaway. Part of her was…

• Chapter 7: A Midnight Summons

  May 14th, 1929 It wasn’t so much the knocking at his door that woke Fex as it was Miss Moppet’s orange and black paws digging in when she launched herself…

• Chapter 6: appearances can be deceiving

  May 13th, 1929 The next several weeks held more, and more complex, training runs with Nicoletta. When they weren’t together, Fex was subjected to a number of meetings and tests.…

• Chapter 5: Training Begins

  April 10th, 1929 Nicoletta jumped out of the truck gratefully, while Dunfre and the assistant that had joined them sorted out stopwatches and clipboards and bits of paper and whatever…

• Chapter 4: Fex Meets Nicoletta (Again)

  April 10th, 1929 Nicoletta stared hard at the photograph, her thumb running over and over Vano’s pained little smile and the curly hair falling in his face. He was reading…

• Chapter 3: A Tempting Offer

  March 19th, 1929 It had taken some time for Nicoletta to find the right diner. She’d walked them into town, catching the scent of massed humans from half a mile…

• Chapter 2: Catching Fex

  March 19th, 1929 When Fex set out that morning, the weather was lovely. Brisk but sunny, with the promise of spring finally coming to fruition in the hills and hollers…

• Chapter 1: Nicoletta and Vano

  January 30th, 1929 “Jail! What were you thinking?” Nicoletta fought with the steering wheel on the old jalopy—one of the Model Ts that had been built just over a decade…