An Accidental Vampire

By David Burton

In 1650 Simone Gireaux was a widower living with her late husband's family. Then the Marauders descended on the town. She woke the next day, her village destroyed, her family dead. And the sun burning her skin. She had no one to teach her how to be a vampire. Yet she persevered and survived to live in California and meet Justine Kroft in my novel Blood Justice. An Accidental Vampire is the first chapter in her odyssey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Burton
• Release date: Apr 6, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465956118

David Burton

David Burton is an American writer living in sunny Southern California. He traveled by motorcycle through Mexico, US, Canada and Alaska. From motorcycles he turned to the ocean, building and sailing his own boats to Mexico, Tahiti, Hawaii, and through the Panama Canal to Florida. He spent a lot of time reading while on the water, so he decided to write books he would have wanted to read at sea.Having swallowed the anchor he now mops floors and collects trash for money, writes for a living, and has become a (temporarily?) unrequited sailor.

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An Accidental Vampire

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An Accidental Vampire

Like most children, Simone Gireaux had been warned of the mythical Marauder all her life. Be good or the Marauder will snatch you away. Do as I say or the Marauder will eat you. Don't go outside in the dark or that monster, beast, vampire, demon, werewolf, creature, The Marauder, will take you to his cave and leave only bones.

In 1642 the warnings became real. A small band of vampires came out of the northern Jura mountains as full night fell. A woodcutter's camp became blood and ravaged flesh, axes no match for the sudden onslaught of fang and blade. The blood drenched bodies of an itinerant trader and his wife were left glistening in the hard glare of their burning wagon.

The vampires burst out of the forest and rampaged through the outlying areas first, then converged on the French village of Suben, raping, torturing, feeding, fighting amongst themselves for blood. None were spared.

Simone and her eight-year-old son, Henri, lived with her sister and her husband, their three children and his parents on a small farm at the edge of the village. By the time the alarm reached them it was too late to run or hide.

The Marauder, who's real name was Stephan Sinakov, and six of his band, caught Simone and her family in the barn where they had an underground storage pit that could be used as a hiding hole.

The father, husband, and oldest boy fought valiantly, but were quickly cut down. Blood Lust drove the attackers and they did not even bother to