HANA ALMOST GROWLED out loud, but she kept control this time. Even the dark turtleneck pulled up over her face wouldn't have muffled the sound of her frustration. She'd been tracking Mina for a couple of nights, trying to find out where the nest of vampires lived. Trying to catch Mina alone. Trying to kill her? asked a voice that sounded suspiciously like her grandmother's. Hana's neck tensed and her lips clenched. It didn't matter: Mina had slipped her tail. Again. And once again, Hana worried Mina had sensed her, that she'd lost her ability to become a shadow, so persistent was her sister-in-law's evasion.
But she had other methods of finding her prey besides tracking. Which was why she was downtown walking along the balance beam of a roof edge. She was searching the old-fashioned way,
