When 17-year old Eleira wakes up in a strange, unfamiliar room high above the redwoods of California, she has no idea what's waiting for her in the dark.

A trio of hauntingly beautiful vampires with a taste for her blood. An ancient sanctuary locked away in time. And a wicked queen determined to do anything to hold on to her rule.

Caught between three vampire brothers and coveted for her bloodline, Eleira is swept into a world of supernatural magic where nothing is as it seems and betrayal lurks behind every corner.

She must fight for her survival or risk being made prey for the very creatures who keep her there. But when she discovers a dark, twisted prophecy with her at its center, she is pulled deep into the heart of the Haven and realizes that the vampires she seeks to escape might just be the key to her salvation.

About the deluxe edition: This is the new, updated 2020 deluxe edition of Wards of Night, the first book in The Vampire Gift series. The entire book has been reworked from top to bottom.

Scenes have been added, backstories expanded upon, edits made, new character perspectives put in, and more! There’s almost 20,000 words of brand new material, so even existing listeners of the series will find something fresh and exciting here. For comparison’s sake, the original version was 58,000 words. This one is nearly 80,000.

Why the update? Well, I wanted to give the series a richer beginning than I had originally had. The remaining books in the series are all deeper and more complex, and each of them is at least 90,000 words, so I wanted a beginning to match that. Right now, there are nine books in the series.