Holding On To You
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"When I said I've had a hard life, it wasn't meant as a challenge for the universe to up the ante into a living hell. Let me start from the beginning, this spiral of madness began the night I died after running into a burning building. That's when he saved and doomed me all in one night in a matter of minutes. My life is threatened too many times to count and I've had to pull the trigger more times than I'd like to admit. I'm never alone through all this thankfully, he was there, always there even though Jack was the most annoying creature to walk among the living. That God damned vampire drove me mad in bad and in good, very...good ways."
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Detective Olive Tanners is thrown into the world of vampires on the brink of war amongst themselves. This all starts the night she runs into a burning building risking her life to save another, only to be met with her own demise. However, fate decided to intervene in the form of a pale skin and fanged man. From then on the crazy course of life spirals into a bottomless pit of madness.
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