The First Rime

Lindsey Eirenikos is dead, brutally murdered by her own father. No one knows why. Not the police and certainly not her boyfriend, Toma Saghinadze.

They'd known each other for years, two strange and lonely souls finding comfort in the simple joys of each other's company. Long in coming, their courtship was all but inevitable...and, for some, frightening.

For there was always something...different about Lindsey. Something that gave everyone who met her pause, as if there was something fundamentally wrong with her. Something that left a chill in the room as she passed. Cool, reserved, almost unemotional...inhuman. Only Toma seemed to be able to understand her; to communicate with her. And everyone else? She scared the hell out of them.

Now Toma is out for answers. About Lindsey. About why her father killed her. Tonight, on the cusp of an Early Winter, Toma will delve deep into the carefully-hidden secrets of Lindy's past...and in the process risk courting the madness that's been shadowing him ever since he met her...

The First Rime. A Tale of the Mavronero Mythos.