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    Nosferatu's Assassin
    Nosferatu's Assassin
    Nosferatu's Assassin
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    Nosferatu's Assassin

    By J. Knight Bybee

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    The number one vampire law was broken. Nosferatu has set Eura Falton to find the culprit with an impossible deadline. Trained as an assassin, and one of the best in her field, she is far outside her depth with a target that is stronger, faster, and deadlier than her.

    Will she find the rogue before panic sweeps across the city, or will she join them and succumb to the bittersweet taste of power?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. Knight Bybee
    Release dateAug 12, 2015
    ISBN9781311529046
    Nosferatu's Assassin
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    J. Knight Bybee

    I have always loved reading, and enjoy writing stories as well. There is just something about taking the world of my imagination and putting it into words for the rest of the world to see that is exhilarating.I have been around the world, and seen more than I ever cared to. I am a war veteran, but am still young at heart.

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      Nosferatu's Assassin - J. Knight Bybee

      Nosferatu’s Assassin

      By: J. Knight Bybee

      Published by J. Knight Bybee

      Cover Art by Ashley R. Bybee

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      Copyright® 2015 by J. Knight Bybee

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      This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, organizations, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Chapter 1

      Tells

      Eura hurled the report across her room. Another hopeful lead crashing into a dead end. If she were a more suspicious person, she’d suspect someone was actively trying to stop her from finding out who her father was.

      She was a very suspicious person.

      That had to be impossible, though. Her connections in the government as well as the underground ensured that there were extremely few who could interrupt the information she was after.

      Not for the first time, Eura wished she had a group of friends to go have a drink or two with. She could use a stout blood ale right about now. It was difficult to make real friends when you were an assassin, though.

      She walked over to the report and picked it back up, giving it a second read.

      Dear Sister,

      I have looked into the lead you recommended, but it has failed to produce any information.

      For future favors, I would appreciate it if you informed me beforehand that you are sending me to deal with a human. The man stank as though he hadn’t bathed in over a day.

      There was no signature at the bottom, but she knew who it was from. Sister Courla owed her a favor for some help Eura gave here a few decades back with some humans living in the Vampire capitol of Ventillith. Ever since then, Courla had hated humans which was why Eura hadn’t warned her.

      Eura didn’t mind humans so much, as long as they bathed regularly and didn’t try to stop her from drinking blood. The humans that lived in the Vampire Nation understood that they didn’t drink the blood of sentient beings. She was half-human, a fact that set her apart from regular Vampires. She couldn’t hide her green eyes, or rounded ears, but she didn’t try to either. It let her opponents underestimate her.

      When she’d trained to be an assassin, her human blood had landed her in more than a few fights. Time and again, someone thought they could take her down a peg or two, simply because she must be weaker. She had disabused them of that notion.

      There were those that claimed she shouldn’t be allowed to be trained as an assassin. Nosferatu, the leader of the Vampire Nation, had to step in and personally grant her permission. After that, all she had to worry about was a knife in her sleep, or poison in her food. Those that tried were long dead now.

      She closed her eyes, lost in her past for a moment, remembering the day she’d become Nosferatu’s personal assassin. The attempts on her life hadn’t lessened, but become more sophisticated. Instead of a knife in a dark alley, it was a carefully dropped object from overhead. Instead of poison in her dinner, it was a spell set to activate when she touched something. Those in her line of work were nothing, if not creative.

      With her eyes still closed, she gathered a bit of energy from her room. The temperature dropped the slightest degree, but she didn’t need much. She used the stolen energy to light her prepared fireplace. The air outside was warm, but she only needed the fire long enough to burn the letter. When it was nothing more than glowing ash, she drew the energy back from the fire, dousing it.

      She held onto that energy long enough to fill a bath, then added it to the water to heat it. The water was a bit hotter than she normally liked, but after the day she’d had, she was willing to enjoy the extra heat. She sighed as the steaming water slipped across her skin and the heat soaked into her tired muscles. Her red hair fanned out in the water, covering part of her shoulders and breasts. She dimmed the magic globe of light floating nearby, and lit unscented candles surrounding her bathroom.

      In an attempt to blot out Courla’s failure to get that information, she ran over the day’s other failed events.

      Being an assassin didn’t mean all she did was kill. She’d enjoyed a nice breakfast of lamb’s blood and eggs at a restaurant a few blocks from her home, before beginning the day’s work. What had at first appeared to be a simple matter of getting information for Nosferatu, had become a tangled mess.

      A light breeze fluttered across what little skin was exposed above the surface of the water as she ruminated.

      The shop keeper that was her informant had sent her to see the friend of a friend of a sister of a friend. She’d ended up two doors down from her starting point, in a foul mood and sweating in a burly blacksmith’s shop. He’d confirmed that he’d filled a large order for weapons, but thought they were

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