Shadow K I S S E D

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled

was convincing the world he never existed.

The Usual Suspects

And with Vladimir always is Anna, the daughter of Fyodor.

Their love is as chaste and pure as that of a brother and sister, and

many times has she defended him from Strigoi who would seek to

destroy him and his holiness. Likewise, it is she who comforts him

when the spirit becomes too much to bear, and Satan's darkness tries

to smother him and weaken his own health and body. This too she

defends against, for they have been bound together ever since he

saved her life as a child. It is a sign of God's love that He has sent the

blessed Vladimir a guardian such as her, one who is shadow-kissed

and always knows what is in his heart and mind.

Richelle Mead

Vampire Academy

preface

I FELT MY HEARTBEAT DRUMMING, once a strong and steady beat now turned to a slow, fragile whisper inside me.

Was I dying? It had nearly happened once before, but I couldn't remember it clearly enough to recall. Had it always hurt this much?

The hunter cradled my face, almost lovingly, smiling down on me. I stared up at his terrifying beauty breathlessly.

I never imagined that I would find my way back to this place – about to die so long before my time, at the hands of the thing I hated most. Then again, what I had become had always demanded my death in this way. Surely it wasn't all for nothing; the one I loved had been spared in my place. As his face filled my thoughts, I knew – I would not have died in vein.

The hunter caressed my cheek fondly as he leaned forward to kill me.


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