"Why won't you let me in? Why won't you let me help you?" I asked exasperated. "Because if I let you in then I risk getting hurt. I can't get hurt again." He yelled back at me. --------------------- Kayla was quiet and reserved. She always minded her own business when she was at school and always got her work done. Enter Darren Lawrence, school bad boy. He always got into trouble and almost got sent to jail for some of the things he did. These two are polar opposites, but yet they are the only ones who could break each others walls down

Raised by her witch Grandmother deep in the forest, Skyler has lived a friendless life of isolation and magic. Her fortunes change when she accidentally binds herself to the powerful demon known as Rayne. This former Prince of Hell is inexplicably drawn towards Skyler and finds himself determined to protect her. Skyler on the other hand has no desire to spend the rest of eternity bound to evil. However when her lonely world is plunged into danger as ancient prophecies, assassins, werewolves and army of demons invade her life, the only thing that stands between Skyler and death is Rayne. This is the third book in the The Imperial Vampire Court Saga.

When Kayla was 10 her parents died. She's been in St. Peter's orphanage ever since. She finally got adopted at 16 and thats when her life started to get interesting.

He had spent centuries with only himself for company, he fed, tortured and killed that was his life and he liked it that way, until she came along and stirred something in him, something he couldn't and wouldn't accept. “If I were you I’d keep that stake sharp. Don’t expect anymore visits like this, next time I come I expect you to use that thing,” he told her pointing to the stake on the bed, and then he was gone.