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VOLUME THREE: HOW NOT TO BE A VAMPIRE HUNTER

There are defining moments in our lives where we can look back later and think, "That was when everything changed," or "that's when I knew." For me, that moment came shortly after my sister told me the man I thought of as an older brother, Elliott, had been killed by a Vampire Hunter. Even though I'd known for the last several months that I would go through the Transformation process like my sister Cadence had as soon as I turned seventeen and was considered old enough, when I found out that Elliott was dead, that I'd never turn around to find him standing just over my shoulder again, or watch in surprise as he snuck into my bedroom window to talk to me in private so as not to alert my parents, or look up into a crowd and see his smile, that's when I knew what I would do with my life, the path I would choose.

It's too bad fate had other plans, ones I would've never seen coming that sweltering June day when Cadence told me about Elliott.