JADE: Book 1 of The Shadow Night Series:..VAMPIRE series........ At the stroke of midnight, will the fairytale be rewritten? Or, will happily ever after die? A sole heir to the vampiric dynasty of the Shadow Night survives a merciless slaughter brought on by a vengeful vampire’s insane lust for power. Her lover reaches her side, but she is dying. Yet, there is one chance to restore her, one chance alone. Reborn with a past of which she has no memory, Jade grows up in present day small town America, living a normal teenage girl’s life, with “parents” and two older “brothers.” She has a wonderful best friend, Nonny, in whom she can always confide. Every year, on Jade’s birthday, she receives a mysterious gift from someone she has never met, let alone seen. Jade nears her eighteenth birthday. Ever since she started dating, she’s never kept a boyfriend longer than a week. Why? What’s wrong with her, she wonders? In her senior year, Tristan Sterling, an enigmatic exchange student, makes no secret of wanting her . And, Jade’s life and fate take a giant turn. Who is Tristan, who is he really? As a graduation gift, Nonny and Jade are sent on a two week trip to Europe. Only once they arrive in Paris, someone is following them. Soon, it will be Jade’s eighteenth birthday and Tristan has promised to be there for her on this all-important night. But, the man stalking Jade and Nonny isn’t Tristan. Who will be with Jade at the stroke of midnight on her eighteenth birthday, to turn her back into who she really was, centuries before? Jade, the small town girl -- and the lone surviving Vampiress of the Divine Family of the Shadow Night. Will she find her destiny, or will she be drawn into an evil darkness, from which there is no escape?