THE CAB PULLED onto the hospital grounds as the sun tinted the eastern sky. As she got out, Morrigan touched the driver’s shoulder. The man grinned at her, believing he’d received payment plus a handsome tip. He drove away, also convinced he’d dropped his fare in a completely different location.
She scanned the abandoned psychiatric facility and its grounds. Boards covered the windows, a precaution she and Marell had taken after moving in. A private road cut through the forty-acre property. An expanse of lawn, overgrown with weeds, stretched from the building to a thin forest edging the entire property. The hospital grounds perched atop high bluffs overlooking the lake on which this city sat. Beyond the trees, the land fell off sharply to the water below.
She searched the area, sensing f
