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

De Vivar waited until we were alone…except for the body of my brother…and then he came toward me.


“Sorry. I’d be more than happy to go home and take a shower.” I might as well have kept my mouth shut.


“You should have welcomed me when I arrived at your home. You would have been a favored pet, and things would have gone better for you. Now…”


“…now you won’t survive this night.” He was reaching for me, and that brought him up short. “What do you mean, no? You might have been able to deny me at your home, but now you cannot. You’re in myhome! You must do as I say because you love me.”


“No,” I said again and tried to push myself back, but I couldn’t go anywhere: I was flush against the wall.


De Vivar glared and lunged at me, and I thrust out my hand in an attempt to keep him away from me…to keep those fangs, those glittering white fangs that dripped almost as if venom leaked from the tips, away from me.


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