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

Raymond was leaning against the trunk of the car.


“I’m sorry, I should have unlocked the door for you,” I said.


“It doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t have gotten in until you returned anyway.”


“Oh.” I aimed the remote at the car and pressed the button that released the locks. Mina bounded in as soon as I opened the driver’s door. She scrambled over the console and settled herself on Raymond’s lap. Damn, the man…vampyre…was fast!


I buckled up, turned on the ignition, and put the car in gear. “Are you going to yell at me?” I backed out of the driveway. The shadows under the trees seemed to converge in the street as I drove away.


“No. I’m going to leave that to le duc.”


“You’re going to tell him? Snitch.”


“He can…he knows what I do even when he isn’t here?” I stared at him in horror. “He’s like Santa?”


“There’s no such being.” There was amusement in his voice. “Keep your eyes on the road, please.”


Chapter 109