"Jayde..." Her mother stopped, hands twisting nervously in front of her. "You're not...exactly... Well, you're not human."
Jayde stared at her mother only a moment before she started laughing. "You're joking, right? How am I not human, when you're a human?" She looked around, expecting the others to be laughing with her, but they all stared at her silently, faces blank masks. She turned back to Natashia. "What do you mean?"
"You're a vampire."
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Hidden from the mythical world until she's seventeen, Jaydelynn Vaninee finds herself surrounded by werewolves, mermaids, sirens, and more when her mother, Natashia, decides it's time she learned about herself. Jayde learns she's a vampire, her natural instincts and traits dormant because of a pill Natashia made her take for 'health reasons'.
Within the first month at Kushim Uruk Academy, Jayde has a mermaid for her best friend and finds out she has a dragon shifter as her soulmate. She also learns her mother didn't tell her everything. Being chased by guys in ski masks was definitely not Jayde's definition of entertaining, nor was being kidnapped.
Like, how could Natashia forget to mention that Jayde was the vampire princess?
[WATTY'S 2024 SHORTLIST] When the Ravos Kingdom abducts the Nyrial Emperor's dragon, princess Aeryn Glastos must marry the demon prince planning her assassination to save her empire and end the war while guarding her heart and a dangerous secret.
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The twenty-two-year-old draconian princess is starting her final year at Insignia Academy during the height of the war between the draconians and demons. Aeryn's dream is to graduate as a bonded Champion in the Fire Force and fight in the war. The only problem is, she is the only draconian to never receive a power by age twenty. Ashamed of his powerless daughter, the emperor of the Nyrial Empire proposes a marriage between Aeryn and the Ravos Kingdom's demon prince to end the war and get his dragon back.
Shade Cross is ruthless, cunning, and dangerously powerful. Everything he touches dies, except Aeryn. He awakens something in her she has never felt before and she acquires not one, but two powers. She must navigate both nations built upon lies, betrayals, a forbidden alliance, and a deadly curse. When she discovers the truth about her empire, she must make a choice: protect the secrets and save her father, or side with the enemy. Aeryn needs to be careful because when it reigns, it pours, and she is caught right in the middle of a feuding storm between both nations.