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 got up, my head buzzing, and I scrambled away from the broken Sledovik pieces to the circle of students who were watching now as Ivan and Volkova were casting spells at an incredible force against one another.


	It seemed like everybody had completely forgotten that the Academy was crumbling around us.


	Suddenly, two arms caught me by my armpits and lifted me up. I looked to see who had helped me, if it was a friend or a foe, and I came face to face with the preternatural girl who splashed water in my face in this very room when the azhdaja ate me. I realized that I never thanked her or even knew her name.


	“You better stand back, human,” she said to me, but smiled friendly. “Name’s Natasha.”


	“Thank you,” I said. “Nevena.”


	“I think you should sit down and watch from behind me. I can’t promise that Starosta Volkova won’t try to kill you as well.”


Chapter 35: Nevena