"The old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters."
-Antonio Gramsci
I was never normal. I could always feel them, everyone around me. Their fears, their desires, all that they were, I could feel. It was one thing out in the sticks, the people were happy and there weren't too many. But I thought NYU would be a wise choice. Now Manhattan screams at me, a city of terror. A city of despair. I thought I was alone in my strangeness but... A true monster revealed itself and I knew why the city was screaming. It was a city of monsters, and I was one of them. But maybe... I could be more?
Elizabeth Crowl, an empath trapped in a nightmare. She is caught between hope and despair. To succumb to the screaming city around her or to make it better?
James Geist, a man who feeds off and communes with death itself. A man fighting so that he never has to be strong again. A monster playing at a hero or the truest definition of one?
Will they be able to emerge from this age of monsters?
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...