The Broken Highlander

By Laura Hunsaker

Previously published in the charity anthology Shades of Pink Volume 2, The Broken Highlander is the prequel to Highlander Reborn.

In the darkest hours after waking from death to his life as a vampire, blacksmith Nevin MacLachlan must learn to adjust to his new existence. While he adapts quickly to his enhanced senses, he hates the vampires that took everything from him. Forsaking the Nightkind, he plans to survive on his own.

No one said it would be easy.

For centuries he tries to blend in with humans, but what kind of blacksmith only works at night? After being chased from his home time and time again, Nevin no longer has compassion for the humans he once knew.

The only things keeping him from becoming completely feral are his sense of honor, and the teasing memory of the woman who changed him. With no clan to belong to, human or Nightkind, Nevin finds out survival isn’t the only thing to live for, and that eternity is a long time to hate what you’ve become.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Laura Hunsaker
• Release date: Feb 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310468247

Laura Hunsaker

Laura Hunsaker graduated from University of Nevada Las Vegas with degrees in English and German literature.After teaching for several years, she writes at night and wrangles her children during the day.She writes steamy stories that keep you up late and leave you craving more.---What's Your Highland Destiny?

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The Broken Highlander

A Nightkind Prequel 0.5

By Laura Hunsaker

The Broken Highlander

Copyright © 2014 Laura Hunsaker

Cover: LFD Designs

Editing: Kristin Wilson

Formatting: Katie Salidas

SMASHWORDS EDITION

This story is a work of fiction. Any similarities to real people, places, or events are coincidental and unrelated. The characters in this work are fictional.

Copyright Laura Hunsaker 2014, first printing

Thank you to everyone who donated. The Shades of Pink Volume 2 charity anthology was a great success. Combined, we raised over $10,000 for breast cancer awareness in 2013 and 2014. You can read about it here.

Thank you Annie and Heather, I love you both!

Chapter 1

Scotland 1304

The fire consumed him, burning away what he had been. It coursed through his veins until it culminated where his heart should be. He no longer knew whether he had a heart or not. But he held fast to the one thing in the inky blackness that he could remember. Her. She was everything. He both hated her and wanted her. But what had she done to him?

The wet slurping sounds nearly gagged Nevin MacLachlan, but he refused to stop. He needed this. His newfound strength had waned.

It had been weeks since he had fed. He was pushing himself to go longer between feedings. The last time wasn’t something he’d soon forget. How could he? He’d killed a man.

Forcing the blood down his throat in a Herculean effort, Nevin refused to shut his eyes. He would watch, he made himself watch, and he would never forget what he had become. Vampire.

He dropped the nearly empty deer carcass and stared in horror and disgust at the blood on his hands. His plaid was ruined. He’d have to try to wash the blood out in the loch. Trudging towards the freezing cold loch, his thoughts drifted to