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

I was about to take another bite when someone yelled at me, and I jumped, almost falling out of the tree, and dropped the peaches. One of them landed with a thud on the man standing below me and that pissed him off even more. He rubbed his head with one hand, while he shook the other at me and shouted in a language I didn’t recognize. All I knew was it wasn’t English or Spanish and it didn’t sound like Romanian.


“Sorry,” I called down to him. “I don’t understand.” I wasn’t sure if he’dunderstand.


“You are in his Grace’s orchard!” he shouted in accented English


His scowl deepened, and he snarled, “You will descend!”


I drew my legs up so they were further out of his reach. “Why?”


Geez, were we having a repeat of the night before? I was going to tell him who I was—I figured that might defuse the situation—when Mina came trotting up. I didn’t think she’d be so relaxed if there was any hint of danger.


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