Young Blood

At three a.m. in a roadside gas station, a gunshot rips through the night. Calliope, a witch, lies bleeding out on the grimy floor, her life slipping away.

Rory, the night clerk, watches from behind the counter, unfazed. He's a vampire and no stranger to death.

But with Calliope's life teetering on the edge, Rory is forced into a choice: let her die or condemn her to an immortal fate by turning her into one of his kind. He opts for the latter, whisking her away to his secluded lake house to help her through the transition into immortality.

It's there, surrounded by the ancient oak trees and the sweltering east Texas heat, that Rory and Calliope grow closer to each other, finding a sense of peace and acceptance in their unusual circumstances.

But what little solitude their seclusion provides is fragile, as the mysterious creature who lives at the bottom of the lake makes its presence increasingly known, secrets from both of their pasts claw to the surface, and they learn that sometimes the monsters within are just as bad as the monsters outside.

Presented here in its complete form, Young Blood contains both books in the Young Blood duology and a bonus short story.