Venom (Book I) ✓

Ruby is a strange girl being raised in a village in which she doesn't belong. Her past is a series of shadowy outlines, the memory of a red cloak and a panicked dash through the forest that the people who raise her called forbidden. Only by a stroke of luck and a small, courageous boy does she survive the dash.

Now, ten years later, that same boy is a powerful man, attacked and mauled by a terrible beast with intelligent eyes. Horrified and driven by the desire to repay her debt, she begins on a journey back to the place she was found in an effort to find the creature whose venom is now slowly killing the boy she thinks she may love.

The hunt takes her deep into the forbidden forest and back to a place that seems all too familiar. Accompanied by a dark and charming young man who can't seem to learn her name, she begins to remember all of the things that she never even knew she had forgotten.

Now plagued by her dark past and knowing that her time is running out, she must struggle to find the monstrous and elusive creature responsible for the dying man back home before he's consumed by the venom in his blood.

**Many thanks to my darling DanaNicoleBeke for the lovely new cover!!