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

	“Where did you come from?” asked Ivan, looking at the vukodlak girl with wide eyes.


	“Mora decided that now that Volkova couldn’t pay her to continue keeping me, she didn’t have any use of me,” explained Katarina. She looked thinner. I looked at her eyes, trying to see if there was any of the madness left inside of them, but all I could see was my friend’s eyes, sparkling happily at me.


	I hugged her and she hugged me back. Ivan looked at both of us, and when we finally broke the embrace, Ivan and Katarina looked at each other awkwardly, and they shook their hands, nodding politely.


	“So, you solved it,” said Katarina. She still had some dried ink in her hair.


	“You helped a lot,” I said to her. “You solved it first.”


	“But Mora drove me insane and I got stuck spinning in loops in my own head and couldn’t stop. She really is a nightmare. No pun intended,” Katarina added as I laughed. She laughed with me, and then she looked at me directly in the eyes.


Chapter 49: Nevena