Helena's breath faltered as she looked out over her burning lands with dark, hooded eyes. Something in her eyes burned as she uttered her final words;
"Whatever it takes, my children, she must not find her One, or the true story behind her parents deaths."
The seething mass of black creatures spoke as one, obeying the final wish of their dying Mistress.
"Whateverrr it takesss."
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Ebony awoke with a panicked gasp as images flashed before her eyes. A dying woman, a golden locket, and the burning figure of her father, consumed as he was 14 years ago by a force of fire-spewing djall.
Werewolves and vampires don't mix, or that's what Kieran Callisto, a seventeen-year-old vampire, has believed all his life - until he falls for the Alpha's son.
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When Kieran meets his new classmate, Mason Kane, he bristles with an unexplainable disdain. Soon it becomes apparent why: Mason is a werewolf. But when a fight turns into a sudden kiss that neither expects, Kieran's feelings for Mason turn to attraction in an instant. None of it makes sense - vampires and werewolves are supposed to be mortal enemies, so why does Kieran find Mason so irresistible? He knows that each kiss is dangerous, each bite is unpredictable...