Prologue
New York, Seventeen Years Ago
Immortality. It is a word that need only be spoken to inspire visions of eternal youth and beauty, of perfectly flawless men and women whose timeless beauty will never wrinkle or fade away. A word many humans think they understand. They have no idea! Do vampires stay young and beautiful? Yes, we do. We also might live a thousand lifetimes. Watching anyone and everyone we ever get close to eventually grow old and die.
We must watch the world around us grow and change, constantly changing with it in order to blend in and survive. Our lives sustained only by taking the life’s blood of others. A lonely, monotonous eternity of darkness that I soon hoped to end! It is indeed a sad and strange creature who curses its own existence, but I hated what I had become. I had been planning my demise for weeks. I hadn’t fed for months, spending as much time in the sunlight as inhumanly possible. Sunlight doesn’t affect a well-fed vampire, but a starving one, well that’s another matter entirely.
My skin had actually begun to tan and even blister in places. My strength was so depleted that I was basically no stronger than an average mortal man. All of this would only make the burning that much easier. A vampire at full-strength would take forever to finally succumb to the flames. Everything had been planned perfectly, but plans very seldom work out exactly as we expect them to. It took only one human female to ruin everything.
Blood Magic Description:
Seventeen year old Allie Chamberlain does not intentionally look for trouble, but if she doesn’t stumble across it, it usually finds her anyway. Her ordinary life is turned upside down by dreams of a boy who lived hundreds of years ago, but the strangest part is seeing him when her eyes are wide open.
Meeting him sparks a journey that puts her face-to-face with terrifying creatures that aren’t even supposed to exist, and they all want something from her, but what? What is so special about her? Who is the beautiful boy from her dreams? And what secrets are hidden behind his sea-green eyes? Join Allie as she learns to navigate her strange new world, and balance falling in love with staying alive.
