Shadowborn - Vampires of the House of Shadow.
Sivrinaj - The capital of the House of Night. Home to the Nightborn castle, the Moon Palace, and host to the Kejari once every 100 years.
Srana - The goddess of knowing and science. Member of the White Pantheon.
Turning - A process to make a human into a vampire, requiring a vampire to drink from a human and offer their blood to the human in return. Vampires who underwent this process are referred to as Turned.
Vitarus - The god of abundance and famine. Member of the White Pantheon.
White Pantheon - The twelve gods of the core cannon, including Alarus, who is presumed deceased. The White Pantheon is worshipped by all humans, with certain regions potentially having favor towards specific gods within the Pantheon. Nyaxia is not a member of the White Pantheon and is actively hostile to them. The White Pantheon imprisoned and later executed Alarus, the God of Death, as punishment for his unlawful marriage with Nyaxia, then a lesser goddess.
Zarux - The god of the sea, rain, weather, storms, and water. Member of the White Pantheon.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I’ve written a number of these at this point, and it never gets less surreal! I have so many people to thank not only for helping me bring this particular story into the world, but also for helping me build the career I feel so fortunate to have today.
First on the list will always be Nathan, the love of my life, my best friend, my number one brainstorming buddy and supporter, and the source of all my free art （haha, thanks）。 I could do none of this without you and could never ask for a better partner.
May Sage, thank you for inviting me to the anthology that originally kicked off this adventure! I loved working with you and having the opportunity to write this little story.
Clare Sager, thank you for being the best coworker, author wife, friend, and human ever. Thank you for the many many many hours spent listening to the Carissa-brain-to-mouth pipeline. I couldn’t have written this book, let alone survive this business at all, without you!
K.D. Ritchie, thank you so much for this incredible cover design. Seriously, you truly outdid yourself on this one! I absolutely love working with you.
Noah, thank you for your always-impeccable editing skills and for doing so on such a bizarro timeline and delivery schedule. You are the best!
Anthony, thank you for a fabulous set of proofreading eyes.
Rachel, thank you for another fabulous set of proofreading eyes… and for all the hilarious comments! I really love them!
And finally, as always, I’m saving the best for last: thank you to you, lovely reader, for coming along on this ride with me. Whether this is your first foray into my books or you’ve been around for quite awhile, I hope you loved it and I am so so grateful to have you. None of this would exist without you. Love you!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carissa Broadbent has been concerning teachers and parents with mercilessly grim tales since she was roughly nine years old. Since then, her stories have gotten （slightly） less depressing and （hopefully a lot?） more readable. Today, she writes fantasy novels with a heaping dose of badass ladies and a big pinch of romance. She lives with her husband, one very well behaved rabbit, one very poorly behaved rabbit, and one perpetually skeptical cat in Rhode Island.