Black Holes - The Mors Mortis Trilogy Book 3

Chapter One

 It took Leah Azemar several days to accept she was dead.

At first, when Evan's bullet hit her and Brenton's basement dissolved into the familiar sights of Narra, the only thing she'd been certain of was that the S.I.S's plan to regain the knife capable of destroying the Mors Mortis Device had gone horribly wrong.

First, Riley had been shot, then Jared and Tai cornered. And now, whatever connection Leah had to the world of the dead had glitched, sending her reeling away from the live world when it mattered most.

The only thing she'd been focused on was returning to the fight at the rebels' base, but she'd barely been in Narra a couple of seconds before she realised something was wrong.

Every time she moved, her body felt like it was wading through water, so much slower than usual. And when she turned inwards and tried to pull herself back, the place her portal usually sat was empty, devoid of anything but sharp, jagged splinters that made her jerk back.

By the time the police sped towards her, screaming she was under arrest, the truth of what had happened was flickering in the back of her mind, throbbing like a dull flame.

Even so, it took several cycles of crying, panic, and denial for Leah to accept the truth.

She'd died. Properly this time.

And though she was stuck in a cell at Narra Police Station, she knew the world of the dead was dying too.

It had started as random black spots that appeared mid-air in her cell, hovered, and then disappeared again. They were strange, but Leah had ignored them until Arelie came to escort Leah to one of her daily interrogations and a portal yawned open halfway down the corridor.

It was unlike any that Leah had seen before, and within seconds, half the precinct had been sucked through.

Officers ran everywhere: grabbing wooden planks and desks to board it up, calming civilians that were stumbling backwards and screaming.

It had been chaos, and finally, Arelie came clean.

Portals had started opening up the moment Leah died, growing more vicious by the minute.

People were being sucked through, and often they weren't coming back.

The balance between the worlds had grown too unstable and soon they'd implode.

And it was all Leah's fault.