~PARAGON CINEMATIC UNIVERSE: PHASE 3, BOOK 3~
*This novel serves as the 3rd novel of Phase 3 and a sequel to "Red Fang".*
"My brother was weak. He favored optimism over realism.....when deep down, he KNEW that wasn't how the world worked. Am I supposed to be like him, and put my trust in these humans?! They've SHUNNED us, Mavis! We do what needs to be done to survive, but they always portray us as monsters! No more. If they see us as abominations.....then we will BE abominations." -Prince Boripedes
Mavis Ladair, the Crown Princess and future Queen of the Vermillion Enclave, is riding high on her career as a superheroine to the nearby city of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, after having successfully convinced the Enclave to reveal itself to the outside world and fostering peaceful relationships between humans and vampires; along for the ride are her husband Garson, her brother Theo Ladair, her adoptive sister Lily Ladair, her parents Lord Balfort Ladair and Lady Amber Ladair, her grandmother Agnes, and Agnes's steward.
However, after the Vermillion Enclave holds a party commemorating two years since making peace with the humans, the vampires soon discover that their precious Bloodstone-an item whose magic is responsible for granting every vampire their own visage when they come of age-has gone missing, and without it, the vampires begin gradually reverting back to their original forms.....becoming practically indistinguishable from each other as a result. Now, with the Vermillion Enclave's diversity hanging in the balance, it's up to Mavis Ladair, her husband Garson, and the rest of the royal family to locate the Bloodstone and return it to the Enclave grounds before each and every vampire ends up looking and sounding the same forever.
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The Moon Phase Trilogy | Protected | Book One | ORIGINAL
44 parts Complete Mature
44 parts
Complete
Mature
#397 in general fiction 08.12.2020
#108 in paranormal romance 01.10.2024
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THIS IS THE ORIGINAL VERSION!
Welcome to Protected, the first book of The Moon Phase Trilogy!
This is somewhat your typical werewolf book, but it's a little different ;)
Ericka Bluhm has a normal life: she has loving parents, crazy but lovable siblings, a best friend and a crush she drools over whenever he walks by in school. She has two jobs and she's getting excited about school. It's her last year of high school and she can't wait to leave.
Just a week before school starts, she comes home after her camp job and sees something different about her home: curtains are closed, lights are off and the doorknob is scratched. Her mind went to a place she hoped didn't happen, but when she walked in the house, she didn't like what she saw: house was trashed, her mother lying on the ground dead and her father no where to be found. She ran upstairs to her two sisters screaming and saw a dark figure hovering in the opposite corner of her sisters. The figure took a step towards her and knocked her out.
After that incident she had felt strange rumblings inside of her. A week after that she meets a boy, who's staying with her best friend for the year. Ericka feels like he's following her around, but she can't prove it. What she CAN prove is that there is a blond and white wolf watching her every move. The only real question is, why?
Find out what happens with Ericka and her younger sisters as they go through dangers they've never seen before and grieve over their murdered mother. Along with finding out where their father went in such a big hurry.
[Word Count before editing: 50,000 - 55,000 words]