"We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows." -Robert Frost

I glanced around the dim room. A few girls sat in the center of the room and stared at me in surprise, immediately ending their conversation. One of them leapt up and hurried over to me. "Gosh, you must be here for the gathering," she squealed in delight. "I was hoping that it would spark attention!" She pulled me into the room and closed the door behind us. The other girls stood up and smiled brightly at me. "I'm Eva, and this is Grace, Joy, Holly, Elena, and Rachel," she chirped while pointing… Continue

I swept my gaze over every branch in the forest. Nothing would stop me from finding him. I crouched down, hidden beneath a wall of brush, and waited. I could see his shadow darting between the trees. I was a huntress, the vampire was my prey. I shifted the sword in my hands, my breath fogged the air around me on this cold night. Suddenly the monster leapt out from behind a tree and darted past me. "Now," I whispered, mentally preparing myself for the battle. I jumped up from my hiding spot and q… Continue

Two years later.....................


"Happy eighteenth birthday," I told myself sarcastically. Shifting positions I slowly leaned over the edge of the rooftop and spied in the people below. It's been two years since those monsters ripped me from my family and killed them all. When I awoke that night, everyone was slaughtered and my brother gone. I only survived because Mother enchanted me with a protection spell on her dying breath, the post powerful method casting spells. Scanning the ally be… Continue

Prologue


In the dim hallway we sat and listened to our mother arguing with the priest in the other room. Leaning against the door we waited to be called in. "Tessa, what if he revokes my license?"

Turning to my brother I realized how worried he was. "Don't worry, Victor," I assured him, "Mother won't let one twin get there license and not the other. Besides, it's a tradition to receive your license on your sixteenth birthday."

"I know," he sighed. "But you're so much more powerful than I am.… Continue