"In the back of her mind a small voice shouted 'No!' over and over again as she bit into Kurt's throat and drank." —Chapter 3, page 17

"Whoever had attacked her had known she would need money. It hadn't been an accident that she had turned. And it probably hadn't been an accident that he had left her hand in the sunlight to burn. How else would she have known to go to ground before sunup? But if he wanted to help her, wanted her to survive, why didn't he just tell her what she was supposed to do?" —Chapter 5, page 33

"I could snap her scrawny blond neck, Jody thought. Then, in thinking it, in knowing that she could actually do it, she was no longer angry. I'm not 'that horrible woman,' she thought. I'm a vampire, and no amount of plastic surgery, or breeding, or...