Against All Odds
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Last published Sat, Feb 2, 2019
In a future world a mutation has changed much of the population into vampires. That's why they created Hunters, human teens trained to hunt down and kill these being while still protecting the humans. Rebecca was been a Vampire for over 734 years since she was brutally attracted and turned. She stays under the hunter radar and moves constantly to hide her secret. But when she moved this time she meets a boy named Jake. He's tall, dark, strong and utterly handsome. Rebecca soon starts to fall in love but pushes him away but can never truly commit to keeping him a far. She has live though tragedy and know all to well what it feels like. But while Rebecca tries hard to counsels her secret from everyone including Jake , we find that Jake has a secret of his own that he will do anything to protect. Will there love survive there differences? Or will it shatter under the pressure of the truth? And will they Against All Odds make it through?
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