UNTAMED
A House of Night Series, Book 4
PC Cast and Kristin Cast
This one is for the students, past and present, of South Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Thanks for your enthusiasm, sense of humor, and support for the series. SIHS is the best!
Also for the ladies of Tulsa Street Cats. They're not nuns, but they do qualify as cat saints!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank our wonderful agent, Meredith Bernstein, without whom the House of Night wouldn't have been born.
A big WE HEART YOU goes to our amazing St. Martin's team: Jennifer Weis, Anne Marie Tallberg, Matthew Shear, Carly Wilkins, Brittney Kleinfelter, Katy Hershberger, Talia Ross, and Michael Storrings. It's wonderful to love working with a group of people so much.
Thank you to the fans of the House of Night—we appreciate you!
Thank you to Tulsa Street Cats for their support, sense of humor, and all they do for cats. To find out more about them and/or donate, please go to
CHAPTER 1
The caw! caw! cawing! of one stupid crow kept me up all night. (Well, more accurately, all day—'cause, you know, I'm a vampyre fledgling and we have that whole issue of day and night being turned around.) Anyway, I got zero sleep last night/day. But my crappy nonsleep is currently the easiest thing to deal with since life really sucks when your friends are pissed at you. I should know. I'm Zoey Redbird, currently the undisputed Queen of Making My Friends Pissed Land.
Persephone, the big sorrel mare who I could consider mine for as long as I lived at the House of Night, craned her head around and nuzzled my cheek. I kissed her soft muzzle and went back to brushing her sleek neck. Grooming Persephone always helped me think and made me feel better. And I definitely needed help with both of those things.