Kindred Series Book One: Rose's Thorns

Humans have lived centuries ignorant of what is truly around them, unaware that the creatures their parents have described to be nightmarish things actually exist but not all of them are nightmares. The world of the Kindred exists hidden among humans and there are even a select few who work specifically to protect humans and other Kin alike.

Tearencia was the last of her kind, or rather the last Guardian alive to carry on what her family had been doing for generations. She knew her place was to protect all Kindred and humans alike from the Kin who had strayed but dark blood laid in her veins that she never could have truly imagined. Blood lust wasn't something a Guardian should feel but it was all too real to her. With no knowledge of who or what her father even was and her mother killed by a vampire when she was a child she had no keys to unlock the questions she had about who and what she even was. As the unrest in the Kin community grows she knows she should be focusing on hunting down the two responsible for it but her entirety of thought was suddenly wrapped around the new human who had come to her neighborhood, or was he something more?....
Allen had spent his entire life in Florida not far from the everglades. He had never really fit in with anyone and kept to himself because of it. Both of his parent had died when he was still an infant so his life with his grandparents was all he really knew. When his grandfather passed away it became time for a change of scenery, something both him and his grandmother needed to move forward. He never expected that change to bring about other changes he could have only imagined in his wildest daydreams. Who was this fiery crimson-haired girl and why was he so desperately drawn to her? And why did the shadows seem to flicker here in ways he had not seen since he had been a young boy?