Beatrice Simmons doesn't know what's in store for her. With her eighteenth birthday a day away, things are around her are starting to change. Hearing conversations from across the room, the strange urge to drink her best friend's blood, and the way her skin seemed to be blemish free overnight. To top it all off, a letter comes in the mail demanding her attendance, to some prestigious school that doesn't exist. Then her uncle, who really isn't her uncle tells her who she really is, and what's in store for Beatrice. She's a vampire, a royal one. And her place isn't on Earth like she thought, but in world where Supernatural's are real. As Lies become truth, and Truth becomes lies, will Beatrice be able to find out why her birth mother was killed? Or will the very people that killed her mother get to her first?

Disguised as a commoner, Max Garner as his name, he meets a woman who catches his eye: Harper Stevenson, a woman with the same age and interests as him.

Having new friends, who have no idea about his real identity may seem suspicious, but can he keep his secret?

When I was four I was taken from my family. When Miri was thirteen she was an orphan and a mother. When we were fourteen we had no shoes and too much work but we had each other.

Miri kissed me three days ago. Before I set out onto this journey with the blocker of my light. She told me to be brave. Be confident. Be brutal. And I'm not brave. I'm broken. But when Miri kisses me hope runs down like molten gold over the broken, jagged edges of my heart. Pulls them together. So for her I am brave. For us both.

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