Imagine an earth just a bit different from ours. In this world normals unknowingly share the planet with all manner of beings, including vampyres, most of whom rely on bagged blood, which is supplemented by the blood of sabors, valued individuals whose blood contains an element necessary for the survival of the species. Tyrell Small has always felt different. He just never knew how different. On his sixteenth birthday, his father reveals Ty is one such sabor, with the birthmark to prove it. Upon learning he’ll be required to feed vampyres, Ty decides he’s not having any of that. He’ll run away and make his own destiny. Slipping out his second story bedroom window, he finds Adam Dasani, the most gorgeous man he’s ever seen, waiting for him on the roof. Adam is reluctant to distress the young sabor about to slide down the drainpipe, but he’s one of the vampyres Ty will one day feed. Equerry to the vampyre king, Adam had been given the task of guarding Ty on the day he was born. Because the blood of the two most powerful saborese families in the shared history of vampyres and sabors runs through Ty’s veins, some vampyres will do anything to obtain him for themselves. It will be up to Adam to keep Ty safe, not only from those rogue vampyres but from others who have plans of their own for him. Everyone keeps telling Ty he can’t escape his destiny, but he has no intention of sitting around twiddling his thumbs, waiting for life to catch up with him. However, will something Adam inadvertently said give Ty a way to live the life he wants and keep those he loves -- including Adam -- out of danger?

They Come by Night

He smiled. A final kiss, and he was gone.


I looked at the clock. He must have let me sleep through the day and most of the night. Had he held me in his arms, keeping me near for as long as he could?


I got up and made myself some breakfast. I had homework that needed to be finished, and then I’d have to go to class.


“Jesus Christ!” I dropped the frying pan, and the eggs splattered all over the floor. Mina started licking at the broken yolks.


“No, it’s Raymond.” He was stretched out on the loveseat, his legs hanging over an arm since it couldn’t accommodate his height. Had he just arrived, and was that why he hadn’t opened it out?


“Asshole. I knew that. You scared me spitless.”


“You did give me permission to enter.” And of course that was why Mina hadn’t barked at him. “Both the Regeand le ducwished me to guard you.”


“Yeah, but—” I shook my head. “Never mind. Do you need breakfast?”


Chapter 104