Prologue

I'll never forget July 25—for many reasons.

Yes, that was my sixteenth birthday—the day every teen dreams of and adults remember fondly—but that day was turned into something so much more. I finally left the hell that is my foster home, and that night, I fell in love. But most importantly, that night, I ditched my dull life as a human, and embraced (somewhat) the life as someone more than that.

July 25. The day I , Serenity Carson, was Marked.