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

	If Baba Roga wanted to attack me and cook me alive, that would’ve been the perfect moment. I was paralyzed with shock. I couldn't move.


	I wanted to ask Baba Roga, what she meant by that; that the vampire who turned Ivan was my father. But I was too petrified to speak up.


	No, I kept telling myself, that couldn’t be true. It couldn’t possibly be true. Because what if…


	“Oh god.” The sound got out of me and chocked me in the process. I didn’t know what was going on. This felt like a bigger nightmare than anything that happened previously, and all I wanted was to wake up.


	“Curses!” said Baba Roga. “Don’t mention gods on my house! What’s wrong with you?”


	I took a few shaky shallow breaths, trying to calm myself down. But I couldn’t. My hands were trembling. My entire body was trembling. My entire world was shaken to the core. My father was a vampire? And he was the same vampire that turned Ivan into what he was?


Chapter 39: Nevena