Fledgling vampire, Sloane Briallen, has spent the past two years pretending that she was never human and never had a family.  But when a desperate call from an old friend brings her back home, she finds two members of their small chosen family missing, and the parents of two more slaughtered.  Pulled back into her old ways of dodging magics, avoiding cops, and keeping her family safe, Sloane searches Phoenix for the missing.  And unbeknownst to her, there’s a larger force at play, manipulating her hand.

Seasoned vampire, Karhi Emelyn, just wants to spend his eternity undisturbed, maybe with a cocktail.  As it is, he has to make sure his fledgling, Sloane, doesn’t kill herself forgetting to drink blood or getting into fights with people much deadlier than herself.  When Sloane disappears and Karhi is called to Phoenix, he finds himself in his own fight with someone much deadlier than himself.  His sire, Ilona, wants Sloane’s head, and Karhi is in a race against time to find Sloane to save himself, and maybe even save her.

Sloane and Karhi are oil and water, but as they come to understand the trauma and loneliness that built each of them, they develop a bond that goes beyond their fledgling-sire relationship.

The events of Samhain left Sloane a legend and Karhi free of the nightmare that had plagued his life for five hundred years.  Now a price must be paid for Sloane breaking the no-killing rule at the Samhain festival.  Sloane and Karhi were ready for fines and maybe some easy court-mandated community service. 

They certainly weren’t ready for the Queen of the Living Vampires to ask Sloane to turn the Crown Princess-To-Be.  Especially considering the request is illegal as hell.

They have until the day of Sloane’s birthday to decide what to do.  But between PTSD flashbacks from hell and living vampires turning up dead almost daily, Sloane and Karhi soon realize that they’ll be lucky to make it through to Sloane’s birthday. 

It’s all fun and games until court-mandated community service turns deadly.

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