DarToWrite
Straight up? I'm the only human in a family of vampires.
My name's Dominic Kanelius. My mother is Sonia Fós-born in 1566, Haiti. She's seen empires fall and still calls me "dork" when she's doing my hair. My siblings? Aneli runs the most powerful club in the Doomed City. Larash is the Demon of Chi-literally. Jermaine's a supernatural boxer with a smile that makes women forget he's older than the state of Illinois.
And me?
I take my girlfriend's kid to school. I get hungover. I try not to think about how much I don't fit.
See, in my family, there's a saying: Family Over Sanity. It means we show up. We protect each other. We burn the world down if it touches one of ours.
The problem is, I've spent twenty-eight years being the one they have to protect.
The human. The outsider. The son who got his father's name but not his power.
But when my best friend Kita-a werewolf bounty hunter from Texas-gets pulled into the vampire council's crosshairs, I walk into a room full of monsters and demand they listen.
And I start to realize something.
My mother's been keeping secrets. About my father. About my blood. About the thing that's been sleeping inside me since the day I was born.
And whatever it is?
It's waking up.
And once it does, being human won't be my problem anymore.
Staying alive will be.