Daisy lives with her family in a forgotten village in the mountains, home to the once fearful beings: Vampires. Secluded from the rest of the world, they have lived peacefully under the watchful eye of the Society and the Vampire Guard tasked to watch them. But is the Vampire Guard really protecting the outside world from the Vampires? Or the protecting vampires from the beings who seek to destroy them? (This is the extended version of the Short Story.)

~Based on prompt 119 for ONC 2026~ "You wake after a mafia raid with a vampire bite marking you as »claimed«, but the vampire heir accused of biting you insists they are innocent." Katie is the lead police investigator into vampire mafia activity, but when she is suddenly Marked by the heir of a Vampire King after a near-death shoot-out at a blood-smuggling warehouse, she will be forced to search for the one who Marked her and uncover the hidden secrets of the city's wealthiest vampire family.