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Do you like vampires? Would you like to be one?
Imagine being a seven-year-old girl. It’s your birthday, and you lie in bed, half-asleep, waiting for your mum to come in singing “Happy Birthday.” You can already picture the sweet fragrance of the strawberry cake your mum prepared last night. Any minute now, she’ll come in to wake you up. Did she buy the ballerina shoes you desperately wanted? And the collection of fairytales?
A devastating scream coming from the kitchen interrupts your joyous musings. Grabbing your favorite teddy bear in one hand, you tiptoe out of your room.
The door to the kitchen is open, and you can glimpse the pink cake with seven candles burning on top. You enter to find your mum sitting hunched over at the table. Her arms are hanging limply at her sides. You grab the sleeve of her right arm and pull it. “Mum?”
With a thud, her head comes off and falls to the ground. You cry out and the blood freezes in your veins.
A muffled sound from behind makes you turn around. You see a tall, blond man with icy blue eyes, holding your little brother in his arm with one hand in front of his mouth. He’s not only holding him, though. His unusually pointy teeth are tearing into your brother’s neck. Tears are running down your brother’s pained face.
“Let him go!” you shout, but the man just grins at you.
A pair of arms grabs you from behind, lifting you up. Something pierces your neck, and an excruciating pain shoots through your body.
That’s how Sarah’s life story started. After killing her family, a group of vampires kidnapped her. For years, they tortured her and put her through a training to become their perfect soldier. Then they turned her into a vampire.
Imagine being in her place. What would you do if you finally escaped this hell?
In The Shadowed Moon, you can follow Sarah and see how her traumatic childhood influenced her and her path forward. Scarred by everything her captors put her through, she hates herself for what they turned her into and looks for ways to take revenge. Will she find an ally in a group of hunters, who hate her kind just as much as she does, or will they be her demise?
Sarah’s journey is not about taking revenge. It’s about finding her place in life, self-acceptance, and hope for a better future.
Sarah McAllister spent her childhood in the hands of ruthless vampires aiming to turn her into a perfect soldier. To take revenge, she hides her true strength and surrenders to a group of hunters, hoping her knowledge will help them bring all monsters to justice.
When the hunters’ compound is attacked, Sarah has to reveal her powers to protect them from certain death. How will Dave react when he learns the truth? And how much will she have to sacrifice to defeat her tormentors?
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Excerpt
Giving in to the urge to feed, turning into the beast her kind expected her to be, and betraying the little girl she once was would be so much easier.
A light breeze carried the hunter’s heady scent to Sarah as she leaned against a majestic walnut tree on this moonless night. She clenched her fists as a shudder ran through her, and every cell inside her body ached for his sweet blood.
After years of suffering at the hands of monsters, she’d mastered the art of renouncing her cravings. Pressing her body against the tree, she concentrated on the coarse bark rubbing against her skin. She could not suppress the abominable hunger forever, but her determination combined with the sensory distraction granted her control of her urges for a little while longer. Would it last long enough to talk to him and set her plan in motion?
The hunter—a young, muscular man with short, chestnut-brown hair and light stubble on his chiseled face—browsed through his phone, painfully unaware of the vampire watching him. And not for the first time. She’d followed him and his team for five days, studying their tactics and abilities from the shadows. They showed promise, although their approach of posing as bait often put them at risk. With a little help from her, they’d rid the world of even more monsters.
She could have picked any group of hunters, but something about the leader of this team enthralled her. His dark eyes held the same sadness and longing she often glimpsed in the mirror. If only she could talk to him about her intentions, but hunters never listened.
She inhaled deeply. Would he pass her test and prove they were more than easy prey?
Her ankle boots echoed on the pavement of the quiet, suburban neighborhood as she approached him from behind. The clacking reminded her of her mother, strutting through the world like she owned it…as if the monsters in the dark didn’t exist.
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As a teenager, she devoured countless fan fiction and vampire novels. During that time, she also developed the idea for her first two books.
Her debut, The Waxing Moon, won the Reader Views bronze award in the romance category.
Apart from being a writer, she’s also a trained mathematician, working as Business Intelligence Developer at an IT company. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, traveling, and all kinds of games.
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