First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Night at the Vampire Castle by Hari Conner
It’s only after an hour of trundling through the darkening forest – in a truly terrible borrowed car – that you realize you’re on the forbidden road.
Your tough-as-nails old gran had gone deadly serious when she’d pointed it out on her old map of Romania, getting you to memorize the location. “For-bidden,” she’d clearly said in her thick, familiar accent. When you asked why, she’d just looked at you knowingly. “You take this road only if you don’t want to come back.”
But when you think about what’s waiting for you at home, you’re not in a hurry to get back at all.
