Mila's lived her whole life with one goal: destroying the upir and sometimes their lesser evil cousins, vampires.
She's fought and trained for almost all of her eighteen years so that she'd be ready to lead the Ouroboros order, a society of hunters that has been around since Dracula was known simply as Vlad the Impaler. She's executed many kills, led hundreds of hunting parties, and honed her abilities as a runemaster. But something's coming, something that even a life like Mila's couldn't prepare her for. Hunters are dropping all around her, and monsters are doing the unheard of. Working together.
Kestrel's second life has been about one thing: protecting his people.
He's long since accepted his role in the vast supernatural world, and what's more, he's learned to relish in the power. Which is why it pisses him off so much when something shows up announced, screwing with the order of things. With only one option left to him, Kestrel undergoes the unthinkable, disguising himself as a moroi hunter in the Ouroboros order. There was a time when he respected their services, but having been corrupted some centuries back, his opinion of them has since been altered. He's going to have to convince them to join forces if they're ever going to stop whatever's coming. The only problem is, forming a truce with the enemy might actually be more impossible than stopping the biggest evil the world's ever seen.
To make matters worse, Kestrel and Mila find themselves drawn to one another, even as they struggle to fend off the growing threat and solve the mystery surrounding a string of attacks. But Mila has a preordained destiny she can't escape from, and Kestrel...Well, he has secrets of his own.
When Mila discovers what those secrets are, will she turn her back on him and his offer of a truce, or will she stand by him and fight for the world they both live in?
Genre: Children's Fiction
She's fought and trained for almost all of her eighteen years so that she'd be ready to lead the Ouroboros order, a society of hunters that has been around since Dracula was known simply as Vlad the Impaler. She's executed many kills, led hundreds of hunting parties, and honed her abilities as a runemaster. But something's coming, something that even a life like Mila's couldn't prepare her for. Hunters are dropping all around her, and monsters are doing the unheard of. Working together.
Kestrel's second life has been about one thing: protecting his people.
He's long since accepted his role in the vast supernatural world, and what's more, he's learned to relish in the power. Which is why it pisses him off so much when something shows up announced, screwing with the order of things. With only one option left to him, Kestrel undergoes the unthinkable, disguising himself as a moroi hunter in the Ouroboros order. There was a time when he respected their services, but having been corrupted some centuries back, his opinion of them has since been altered. He's going to have to convince them to join forces if they're ever going to stop whatever's coming. The only problem is, forming a truce with the enemy might actually be more impossible than stopping the biggest evil the world's ever seen.
To make matters worse, Kestrel and Mila find themselves drawn to one another, even as they struggle to fend off the growing threat and solve the mystery surrounding a string of attacks. But Mila has a preordained destiny she can't escape from, and Kestrel...Well, he has secrets of his own.
When Mila discovers what those secrets are, will she turn her back on him and his offer of a truce, or will she stand by him and fight for the world they both live in?
Genre: Children's Fiction
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