I couldn't believe my ears. Vampires? It sounded so silly saying it, let alone thinking it. I had to throw every belief-and disbelief-I ever had, right out the damn window. What Dante came to offer me was what kept me from running out of the room... or telling Kyle. It was a chance for me to have a life without being hunted down by the two men who treated me as though I was a freak-a circus sideshow-and a monster. Dante was the one who had haunted my most recent visions. I was in his mind when he murdered so viciously, and I felt his immense pleasure in the process. He was just another monster, which was the one thing I feared the most of becoming. But when I hungered for his victims-and savored the taste of blood on my tongue-I had to face the fact we really weren't so different after all...