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

	“Get away from me you old hag!” I screamed and I backed towards Baba Roga’s bed.


	“That’s not a nice way to treat your host, my dear,” said Baba Roga and she came closer to me, her wooden cane going thump, thump, thump on the dirty floor covered in bones of god-knows-what. “I’m just a lonely old woman. All I want is just a little bit of company every once in a while.”


	“You didn’t seem too interested in company when first got here,” I told her. Oh, I just wished that she would stop coming closer to me, but no such luck. She grabbed my hand with her old, fragile one, and I winced when I felt how sharp her nails actually were.


	“Because I thought you were a nasty vampire like him, my dear,” she said, sniffing around me. “Like you just said, I’m an old hag. My nose isn’t what it used to be.”


	She chuckled and that was the most horrible sound that I have ever witnessed before. I tried to pull my hand out of hers, but her grip was strong.
