The Hunger and the Heart (Paperback)

Paperback. For sixteen-year-old Lucy, invisibility is a way of life. In her quiet town, she is a ghost, until she discovers the boy in the abandoned train car. Vance is elegant, ancient, and starving. Lucy believes she is saving a troubled soul, but soon learns his sickness is a 400-year-old curse: he's a vampire, and his only cure is blood.Drawn into his world of velvet curtains and ancient secrets, Lucy's love for him becomes a dangerous obsession. To save him from a slow fade into nothing, she makes a choice that shatters her world, becoming his provider and luring an innocent into their lair. The act awakens something in her: a chilling power she never knew she possessed.But their deadly secret has a witness. As the cunning town sheriff closes in, Lucy must become a player in Vance's deadly game of survival, where the lines between love and manipulation blur. To protect the monster she adores, she must become a monster herself.A captivating and twisted love story, The Hunger and the Heart explores the terrifying price of devotion and asks what's left of a soul when it's given away. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…