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

	Volkova had found a rog, and she was pointing it at both me and Ivan. She looked like she had been homeless for months, nothing unlike the powerful and self-assured woman I had met just a few days ago.


	“I really hate you,” she said, looking at me. “I hate everything about you. You should’ve never existed in the first place.”


	“Nevena, don’t do anything reckless,” warned Ivan, but I wasn’t planning to. I just wanted to know what had I done to make this woman hate me so much.


	“I don’t understand it,” I said. “I really do not. What have I done to make you hate me so much? You didn’t even know who I was until three days ago. How can you hate someone who you don’t even know, not in the true sense of the word?”


	Volkova made a weird snorting sound, as if she was choking on the words that she couldn’t wait to spit at me. “Didn’t know you? I’ve been keeping my eye on you for years, Nevena Pavlović. Ever since I found out you existed.”


Chapter 45: Nevena