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

	Dragomir, Nenad, Stefan and Vladislav surrounded Nevena, and all four of them were looking at her with insatiable hunger in their eyes.


	Blood is provided for us here in the Midnight Garden, but it is not the same as drinking directly from the source, when it’s still warm and fresh. Magic keeps the blood in the Midnight River as fresh as it can, but it’s still cold and comes from animals. And us, vampires… well, we get hungry at night.


	“Guys, stand down,” I told my fellow vampires, but the thing is, Academy rules don’t apply in the Midnight Garden. I cannot tell other vampires what to do or not to do. And Dragomir and Nenad I consider as my friends.


	But a human (or even half-human) coming voluntarily into the Midnight Garden… they knew Nevena was here before even I did. They smelled her. And they all wanted her. Her blood. I knew it.


	“Do I need to remind you about the Krov Svez?” I asked them.


Chapter 26: Ivan