Lyra got out of her car and sighed. No backing out now. Not when she’d spent all day looking for the perfect costume for this shindig. Only Caius would come up with a Halloween party weeks too early. She’d finally decided on the slave girl Princess Leia from Star Wars. So what if she had a lot more in the curves department than the original Leia. She still pulled it off quite nicely if she went by the looks she got as she entered Caius’s haunted mansion. She didn’t know how Caius rented the place, but they’d done a freaking amazing job with the décor. Her favorite part was the cavemen waiters walking around, handing out glasses of champagne. Some guy dressed as a vampire tried to get her attention. She hissed at him. The face he made almost had her in stitches. This might be fun after a

