to be seen. The trees stood tall and silent, with dew clustering on their needles. The lavender painted the sky with the colors of early morning, and a bird chirped in the

away from home, deep inside Des Pontonniers Preserve. He never had any memory of how

in high school, had come back to find his sister, Kate Harley, who was the murdered jogger that Levi had heard about on his father's police scanner the night before school started. Kate was the only survivor of a house fire that ki

Vampire as best he could. He'd already refused to kill with the Alpha once, but Ryan said it was only a matter of time

p earth. He laid his hand over it and told himself that it wasn't his. Max didn't change into a vampire exactly, and neither did Ryan. However, Ryan's dead sister, Kate Harley, had turned into a vampire. Max and Levi had seen her in vampir

ensed. His fingernails lengthened into claws, and h

ed calmly at him with red eyes, a vampire, he knew. The rising sun cast a glow around it, almost as if it were a magical creature, and it

ho

x's three main goals in life had been playing first line in Rugby, getting a girlfriend, and buying a car. Accomplishing two out of three

-eye T-shirt, and it kind of freaked Max out when he wore it. As if it meant that Levi was a target. They both knew the Alpha wanted Max to kill with him, t

n the woods?" Max asked h

"At least, I don't think so

that has become your life," Levi said, aping Ma

wearing that black-and-purple top with no sleeves and the heeled boots, and she gav

, Bugs," Levi sa

n the moment that he almost missed what she was saying. Her beautiful face was filled with even more concern than

ast night, and Amelia found an odd note in his dresser dra

orsche. Leo Rupert. The pieces slowly started to fall into place, and alarm bells went off

but he wasn't?" Max asked, feel

town," Miley said, and Max cou

no memory of what had happened the night before. He f

Miley said, and gav

melia passed by, looking exhausted and worried. Max swallowed back his dread,

t night," he told himself

stomach refused to go away. Would he rea