title: Roost
author: Sneddon, Mary
description: Winter is settling in to the city. It has brought with it holiday decorations, pumpkin spice everything, and the yearly roost of crows. It also brought Corbin. Anna-Claire Victor is a writer. And a violinist. And a serial parental phone call ignorer. Her life is a routine of a menial cubicle job by day, a struggling string quartet by night, and an aspiring writer in all the moments in between. Claire doesn't know where Corbin came from, what he does, or why he seems so interested in her. All she does know is that she is drawn to him. He is a light in her boring rut of a life. If only she could get past this nagging feeling that he's hiding something...