One of those hunters is Gideon Chase. He’s the leader of all the vampire hunters, and a billionaire who was considered quite a ladies’ man before he slayed a demon and was burned by hellfire. The hellfire scarred him horribly and is slowly and painfully dragging him, body and soul, to hell.
Now he wants my help.
Because, thanks to a couple life-or-death situations, I’ve had to drink the blood of two master vampires—
Thierry being one of them—I now have some sort of supercharged blood. This allegedly means that any vampires I sire will be very strong. Gideon is under the impression this means that I can heal him if I turn him into a vamp and keep him from his one-way ticket to hell, but it has to be done along with a ritual under the next full moon.
And if I don’t do what he says, he’ll murder everybody I love.
Obviously, I agreed to help him out.
He made me end my budding relationship with Thierry because Gideon’s afraid that I’ll reveal his nefarious plans to him in a private moment. But my attempted break-up didn’t work. We’re still together, only now we have to keep it a secret from everyone, even my closest friends. If Gideon finds out that I didn’t do what he demanded… well, he simply can’t find out.
The guy is evil. Literally.
Last, but certainly not least, I’m dealing with a curse that turns me into a nightwalker—a vicious, neck-biting, sun-fearing, sultry vixen of a vampire (in other words: so not me)— unless I’m wearing an ugly but effective magic-infused gold chain.
I’m trying to stay positive that everything will work out in the end, but it currently sucks to be me.
The pun is fully intended.
Chapter 1Okay, Sarah, try not to freak out,” Amy said.
That’s not really a good opener—not when you’re already close to the edge like I was.
My two best fanged and fabulous friends, Amy and George, had taken me out for drinks at a place called Darkside, the only secret vampire nightclub in Toronto currently open for business.