Willow Faron was a girl with big dreams. She dreams of helping people and making sure they would come home to their parents after helping them at her clinic in Portland, Oregon. But the day after she opened her clinic/home, she found it robbed, and her robber was a vampire. 

Caught between two worlds and forced to serve the vampire as their only human doctor under a Blood Oath, Willow’s dreams have turned away with the setting sun. Only the vampire in question draws her further and further into the Underground, a fantastical world where myths and fairy tales come to life.

And what’s more, Willow doesn’t want to say no.

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Heaven help her. 

Willow didn’t know what came over her. She didn’t know why she did why she pressed her palm against Lilith, and ‘kissed’ her.

Was it the night's events making her frisky? Or was it simple desire?

Willow didn’t know, and she didn’t care. 

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Venipuncture is written by Damon Day, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.



Venipuncture

Willow stopped on the boardwalk and wondered what the high h*ll she was doing. The letter had mentioned a warehouse, and she had stopped a nearby dockworker for directions. Sure enough, she was pointed the way, but just as she was about to leave, the man stopped her. 


“Are you really sure you want to go there, miss?” he asked. “That place has been abandoned for years.”


Willow looked at the warehouse and then back at the dockworker. “Why?”


A shrug was their response, and a directed whisper. “They say that some crazy guy goes in there at night, and sometimes, if you listen close, you can hear the screams of the dead.”


That wasn’t foreboding, at all. Nope.


Willow wasn’t nervous, no. Not after all the anger had left, and realization of what she was doing set in.


It was only stubborn pride that carried her this far, but it wouldn’t carry her any further.


Chapter 21: Future Imperfect