Yasmine Galenorn - Crimson Veil

Arcade Fire:“Abraham’s Daughter”

Asteroids Galaxy Tour, The:“Out of Frequency,” “Sunshine Coolin’,” “The Sun Ain’t Shining No More,” “Bad Fever”

Awolnation:“Sail”

Bangles, The:“Walk Like an Egyptian”

Black Angels, The:“You on the Run,” “Manipulation,” “Vikings,” “Indigo Meadow,” “Twisted Light,” “Phosphene Dream,” “Haunting at 1300 McKinley”

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club:“Shuffle Your Feet”

Blondie:“I Know but I Don’t Know”

Bravery, The:“Believe”

Bret Michaels:“Love Sucks”

Broken Bells:“October,” “The High Road,” “The Ghost Inside”

Buffalo Springfield:“For What It’s Worth”

Cat Power:“I Don’t Blame You”

Chris Isaak:“Wicked Game”

Commodores:“Brick House”

Crazy Town:“Butterfly”

Cul de Sac:“The Invisible Worm”

Cure, The:“Charlotte Sometimes,” “The Hanging Garden”

David Bowie:“I’m Afraid of Americans,” “Without You,” “Let’s Dance,” “Sister Midnight,” “Rebel Rebel,” “Golden Years”

Depeche Mode:“Blasphemous Rumours”

Eagles:“Life in the Fast Lane”

Eastern Sun:“Beautiful Being”

Fatboy Slim:“Praise You”

Feeling, The:“Sewn”

Foster the People:“Pumped Up Kicks”

Garbage:“Queer,” “I Think I’m Paranoid,” “Bleed Like Me,” “Sex Is Not the Enemy,” “Blood for Poppies,” “I Hate Love”

Gary Numan:“Down in the Park,” “Are Friends Electric,” “I, Assassin,” “Metal,” “Stories,” “War Songs,” “My Shadow in Vain,” “My Breathing”

Gotye:“Hearts a Mess”

Julian Cope:“Charlotte Anne”

King Black Acid:“Rolling Under,” “One and Only”

Kinks, The:“Destroyer”

Kraftwerk:“Pocket Calculator”

Kyuss:“Thong Song,” “Thumb”

Lady Gaga:“Poker Face,” “I Like It Rough”

Ladytron:“Predict the Day,” “Black Cat”

Larry Tee & Princess Superstar:“Licky (Vandalism Remix)”

Low:“Half Light”

Lynyrd Skynyrd:“Sweet Home Alabama,” “Saturday Night Special”

Mark Lanegan:“Bleeding Muddy Water,” “Phantasmagoria Blues,” “Miracle,” “Pentacostal” (with Duke Garwood)

Men Without Hats:“Safety Dance”

Oingo Boingo:“Weird Science”

People in Planes:“Vampire”

Screaming Trees:“Gospel Plow,” “Where the Twain Shall Meet,” “Dime Western”

Scorpions:“The Zoo,” “Send Me an Angel”

Shriekback:“New Man,” “Dust and a Shadow”

Stone Temple Pilots:“No Way Out,” “Glide”

Talking Heads:“I Zimbra,” “Slippery People”

Thomas Dolby:“She Blinded Me with Science”

Thompson Twins:“Watching,” “Love on Your Side”

3 Doors Down:“Loser”

Wang Chung:“Everybody Have Fun Tonight”

Verve, The:“Bittersweet Symphony”

Yoko Kanno:“Lithium Flower”

Zero 7:“In the Waiting Line”

I hope you enjoyed Crimson Veil, book fifteen of the Otherworld Series. I love writing this world, it expands and grows with each book, and I see so many possibilities ahead for the D’Artigo sisters.

Next, stay tuned for the last book in the Indigo Court Series, Night’s End, coming July 2014, in which Cicely and her friends face the final battle against Myst and the Indigo Court. Turn the page for a sneak peek at the first chapter.

While the Indigo Court Series will be wrapping up, the Otherworld series will not! Priestess Dreaming (a Camille book) comes out in the fall of 2014, and there will be more books from Otherworld after that. I am also starting a spin-off series set in the Otherworld altaverse—same time frame, different characters.

The first book in the Fly By Night Series—Flight From Death—will be out in 2015. This series will not take the place of the Otherworld Series, but will run concurrently! It’s exciting for me to have the opportunity to bring you more stories from the Otherworld.

For those of you new to my books, I hope you’ve enjoyed your first foray into my worlds. For those of you who have followed me for a while, I want to thank you for once again revisiting the world of Camille, Menolly, and Delilah.

Bright Blessings,

The Painted Panther

Yasmine Galenorn

I stood on a hillock near the barrow. The land was covered with snow and ice, the horizon stretching out in a vast panorama of winter. It was like the perfect picture: The snow gleamed under an overcast sky, sparkling with the cold. Here and there, patches of ice glistened the faint blue that winter ice tends to take. Evergreens—firs and cedars—stood cloaked in white blankets, the snow weighing down their limbs to touch the ground.

My breath was visible in the icy chill of early dusk, a cloud of white every time I exhaled. But the pristine chill that made the very air shimmer barely penetrated the white feathered cloak I wore. And even the cold that did make it through had ceased to bother me over the weeks. For I was the Queen of Snow and Ice now, and cold was no longer an enemy.

As I surveyed the land around my barrow, I was aware that, not ten yards away, Check, my personal guard, kept watch. Beside him stood Fearless, who had recovered from his wounds. The Cambyra Fae had healed quickly, even from the severe wounds he had sustained from the Shadow Hunters, and while he had been in great pain for several weeks, now he was back in action. As an interesting side effect, I sensed his attitude toward me had shifted. Where before, he had been doing his duty, now there seemed to be a loyalty in place that I hadn’t expected.

I listened to the slipstream carefully, searching for information. The realm of Snow and Ice might be mine to command, but it was vulnerable, and Myst was still out there. While I trusted the scouts and my advisors, I had begun to realize that my awareness had heightened since the coronation, and I could—if I listened carefully—sense Myst when she was around. After all, in a lifetime long before this one, she had been my mother and I had been her daughter Cherish, the hope of the Indigo Court, until I betrayed both her and my people.

Ulean, my wind Elemental, swept around me. She was stronger here, the winter kingdom agreed with her. While she’d always come through clear to me—ever since being bound to me when I was six years old—here, in this frozen realm, I had become even more aware of her.

At times, I thought I could catch a visible glimpse of her. Strict, my advisor, had told me it was one of the side effects from taking the crown—one in a long line of shifts and changes that I had been going through. Some days, I looked in the mirror and wasn’t entirely sure of who I was.