All Nevena wants is to be like all the other seventeen-year-old American teenagers: go out with her friends, date a cute boy, and get a driver's license. But Nevena's mom wants her to be true to her Serbian roots and tries to raise the girl in a traditional manner.

After Nevena hears that her mother plans to take her to Serbia for the summer, she plans to escape and hide at her best-friend Rachel's house, but her plans go out the window when she is swept off her feet by a handsome vampire named Ivan and taken to Slavonika Academy, a school for those gifted with Slavic Magic.

This new world is more dangerous for Nevena than Ivan expected, especially since Nevena seems to be just a human. She's caught in a world too perilous for her to navigate without any Magic abilities. But Ivan got her into this mess, and he promises to do anything in his power to protect Nevena.

The Embrace of the Vampire is created by Matteo Morgenstern, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

The Embrace of the Vampire

	I don’t know why I did it, but when Ivan said that, I just looked away from his mesmerizing eyes, and I started running.


	I am not quite sure what I was running away from; it’s not like I could leave the Slavonika Academy just because I wanted to. But if I didn’t run, I was just going to scream and shout and cry, and I didn’t want to do that. Not in front of Ivan at least.


	What I wouldn’t have given away at that moment just to be with Rachel and Jessica so we can laugh about the whole thing and gossip until we felt like it.


	“Nevena! Wait!” Ivan said and he started running after me.


	I ran even faster, not wanting to face the handsome vampire that had to kill me or turn me in just three days. I know why he did it – to save me that horrible Axe of Perun (how is that thing even legal?) but I didn’t quite understand it. Wasn’t it better to die now than wait three more days?
