Seeing Into The Daylight.
Claire Summers, a clever girl and a natural beauty, sat on the dock where her family is spending the summer at their cottage in Raleigh, North Carolina. She couldn't wish for anything more than a way to get away from her family.
She has a perfect life, but not a perfect family. Her mother and father were mean and she got the blame for everything that she didn't do. Naturally, she wished that she would have gotten Marked and left her family and her perfect life to the House of Night where she would become a vampyre and not a stupid teacher for Math classes in her future.
Never did she think about that until it really happened.
Claire was sitting on the side of the dock when she sensed someone watching her and she wasn't feeling good. She thought that, I must be getting my period soon now, but she started less than 3 weeks ago. Then when she turned around, a boy was sitting on her family's boat and said, "It's your turn." And everything went blank like a clear peice of white paper.
When Claire's vision cleared, she rushed into the small cottage and yelled, "I'm Marked! And I have to get to the House of Night now or I'm going to die!" She had friends that were chosen when she was 15 years old and she wanted to see them again. Her mother, Mrs. Summers said, "How are you Marked! We didn't get a warning!"
"It happens without a warning! Geeze, I have to get to the House of Night now!" She screamed as she ran up to her room to pack whatever she could into her bag and then she raced out of her room to the car where her mother had the car running and they were speeding down the highway to Connecticut so that Claire could get to the House of Night before she died in the back of her mother's Porcshe Carrera. Claire had friends who were chosen when she was in Grade 10, but she wished that they chose her during that time period.
During the time she was being rushed to the House of Night, she had very pleasant dreams about thinking on what she might become if not a teacher for a Math class. Maybe an equestrian rider. Or maybe a fencing champion, she thought. Somehow, she wished that she was a High Priestess for one of the schools. It was ten hours after her being Marked, she wasn't feeling very well.
"Mom, pull over the car." She mumbled before she got sick all over the front of the daskboard. Then her mother got out of the car and had Claire get out so that she could clean the spot where Claire got sick all over.
"I have to get there soon, or I'm going to die, MOM!" Claire fainted and she heard a voice calling out to her. At first, she thought that it was her mother, but the voice was softer, more child-like when in her spiritual self, she opened her eyes to see a woman who looked nothing like her mother. She asked, "What happened? Did I die?"
"No," the woman said softly, "You didn't die, but I wish for you to help out the House of Night when you get there. There is great evil there and I wish for you to destroy it for the sake of the fledgings and the vampyres of the future. Please do this to remind me that you are not alone." And then she kissed Claire on the cheek and then she was wkisked into total darkness.