Book Description

Mecca is a murderer. That's what she thinks when she accidentally kills the man who attacks her her favorite coffee shop's parking lot. Self defense, right? Except how is she to explain that he died with only her hand on his wrist?Vampires don't exist. Well, not in the "traditional" sense. The Visci, a species that subsists on human blood, are not undead. They're not human. And they never were.Everything you know is wrong.Close kin to humans, the Visci pass within our society easily, and over millennia, wedged their way into positions of power. Long-lived, they are also very difficult to kill. However, they have an evolutionary flaw. While they do not die easily, they also do not reproduce easily. But they can mate with humans - and have, giving rise to a population of human-Visci hybrids, called half-bloods by those of pure lineage.For centuries, half-bloods and pure bloods lived and worked together. But tensions have risen and civil war now rages on the doorstep.But Mecca Trenow knows none of this when she flees to her father, panicked over her unintended use of the family Gift: the one that allows her to manipulate human energy. She's always hated her gift and wouldn't learn anything about it beyond how to control it so she wouldn't hurt anyone. That is, until the rogue pure blood attacks her. She reacts instinctively, draining his life - the life he's stolen from another - from him in moments.And now she's a murderer.When word gets back to the Visci of one who can kill their kind with just a touch, the race is on to acquire Mecca as a weapon in the coming battle. As she learns about this shadowy underground group, she discovers her father's dark past and the secret he has kept from her her whole life.Reeling from this discovery, unable to trust the one person she has always counted on, Mecca is isolated from everything she once knew, all while being hunted by dangerous creatures bent on using her Gift for their own bloody purposes.