Set in the small, intimate world of Ryars Valley, these tales chronicle the lives of a group of Nightworld and human teenagers over several years; showing the small tragedies and triumphs that shape their lives and characters. These stories run before and concurrent to the Fires of Fate series.
Some secrets were never meant to be kept.
It was such a secret that sent Chatoya Irkil running from her home, leaving her brother dead and her family in the hands of the Nightworld. Now she had a new home, with people she didn't know and wasn't sure if she could trust. Unable to grieve, unwilling to fight, she thought it would be easy to forget there...
Someone didn't want her to forget.
Tamara Slone was trapped in her life: human, and unwilling vampire hunter, she saw no way out. And when she met her soulmate, the crazy, wild boy she had scarcely noticed and always avoided, it threw her world into chaos.
Vae Victis [Incomplete]
Life on the Redfern enclave was never dull. But for Sandrine, human slave, it was difficult and terrifying. She found herself hopelessly entangled with vampires, led into the darkness she was trying so desperately to escape...a darkness Bane Malefici seemed to drag closer with every action.
And the only ones who could save her were her enemies.