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

	When I opened my eyes, I wasn’t sure what was really going on because I felt like I was floating. The night sky above me indicated that I was either soaring upwards towards heaven or that I was somewhere outside.


	I had to have been outside. Because if I was in heaven, Ivan would’ve been there with me, and when I reached out with my hands, I couldn’t touch his.


	Someone shouted and then half-a-dozen faces appeared over me. I blinked a few times and then I realized that I knew some of them…


	Slavonika Academy. The Sledovik Stone. Volkova.


	Suddenly, I remembered everything and I got up.


	“Hey, hey,” said a voice and I looked around and my eyes found Ivan’s. He had just arrived and he gently placed his hand on the back of my head. “Take it easy. You went through a lot.”


	I turned around to wrap my hands around his neck, but then searing pain in my right shoulder reminded me of the knife that Volkova used to stab me before I killed her.


Chapter 48: Nevena