Gabe Granger gathers intelligence for George Washington, even after he’s bitten by a vampyre in the service of the British. Remember Littlebury, his longtime friend, stays with him as his black swan, keeping him safe from sunlight and getting messages to General Washington.<br><br>After the war ends, they continue working for the fledgling government through one conflict after another. When Gabe loses Remember at the Battle of Gettysburg, he’s ready to give up, but his country still needs his services. And there are many black swans for him to choose from. None are any more fortunate than Remember, and one by one they’re killed in various wars.<br><br>All Noah Poynter wants is to be a black swan, and he’s devastated when his pop tells him he’s just a normal. In spite of everything, Gabe and Noah become friends. Is there any hope for the two of them?

The Black Swan

Gabe and Remember worked hard. Sometimes the information they gathered resulted in a battle won. Sometimes the officers who received the information discounted it and followed their own inclinations, resulting in a battle lost along with numerous lives.


They just hoped that with each battle, each march, each new general replacing a previous one, that the war was growing closer to an end.


By the end of June 1863, Gabe had gotten General Meade all the information he could gather. With that done, Remember secreted Gabe away in the cellar of the little house they’d let in the small town of Gettysburg.


Once night had fallen at the end of the first day’s battle, Gabe slipped out and visited the battlefield. He came across men from both sides who hadn’t been taken to the tents where the sawbones performed surgery. He fed from the ones who were too far gone to last until an ambulance wagon came to take them behind the lines.


Chapter 10