Season One: Dead And Alive - Crossroads (Episode Six)

By Ileandra Young

The final episode in Season One of Ileandra Young's mutli-season paranormal thriller 'Dead And Alive'

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Three lives, three souls, three devastation experiences of crushing, emotional loss.

Injured and frightened, Diavian turns to the only person who can help. Kailah, upon seeing her progeny must make a choice. When she lets Diavian into the house, her first instinct is to protect her, but soon the events of the night gone by force her to a stunning confession that changes everything between her and her sometime lover.

Michael returns to a cold, empty house and waits for the tears to come. Instead his resolve is hardened when he understands just how pointless his continued existence would be without Stephanie at his side. Dying would be a release, a welcome end to a mediocre life. But there is one thing he needs to do first.

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Here continues the multi-season story arc starring three distinct and passionate characters: Diavian Hatara, Kailah Turner and Michael Garran.

Watch their lives each thread in and out of of the others, often colliding with devastating consequences. Follow their stories as they come face to face with forces of which the everyday world regularly denies knowledge.

Witness three souls search for the answer to a single, simple question: 'What does it mean to be dead and alive?'

• Language: English
• Publisher: Little Vamp Press
• Release date: Jun 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311837035

Ileandra Young

Ileandra Young is one face of Da Shared Brain, who also writes erotica and romance as Raven ShadowHawk. This face writes urban and traditional fantasy, watching the moon at night and dreaming up new supernatural creatures to let loose on her characters. When not writing, Ileandra can be found LARPing (gleefully), snoring (loudly), or playing video games with her twin sons.

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DEAD AND ALIVE

Episode Six: Crossroads

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How This Works

Dead And Alive: Crossroads

Season Two Coming Soon . . .

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Coming Soon From Ileandra Young . . .

Previous Titles In Dead And Alive, Season One

Other Releases From Ileandra Young

About Ileandra Young

How This Works

‘Dead And Alive’ is a multi-season serial following the lives of three characters: Diavian Hatara, Kailah Turner and Michael Garran. Each ‘season’ is of novella length (between 30,000 and 40,000 words), split into 6–8 ‘episodes’.

Episodes will be released every other month with a gap of 3–4 months between seasons.

To receive notifications of each new episode, I recommend that you follow my sign up for my quarterly newsletter and receive a bunch of free stuff while you’re at it.

Aside from that, it’s pretty simple. Grab a drink, get comfortable and prepare for a fast-paced thriller, charting what happens when the lives of vampires and humans collide.

Dead And Alive: Crossroads

Kailah upended the vodka bottle one more time. The last drops splashed her tongue and sent a shudder through her body from head to foot. Despite that, despite the other two bottles she had consumed in the past two hours, she remained painfully sober. Painfully aware. Painfully remembering.

Stupid vampire metabolism.

She dropped the bottle beside the others, ignoring the loud glass clink.

The first fingers of sunlight wormed past the edge of her curtains. Bright shafts lengthened, creeping across the carpet to warm her toes. She flinched, prepared to experience the familiar heat, the ever present reminder that though she appeared human, she was no longer.

Nothing.

Not even a tingle.

Kailah sat straight. Stared at the dust twirling through the golden glow.

How?

She rushed to the window. Threw back the curtains.

So bright.

Great warm blazes of light, filling her vision as the sun broke through a bank of autumnal cloud.

It’s been so long. It’s beautiful.

Kailah touched her face. Her hands. Her arms. Watched the sun dazzle across her skin in a way no artificial light could replicate.

A tear slid down her cheek.

The warmth was gentle, not the uncomfortable burn she had come to accept. Distant, long buried memories stirred and fed her images of pebbly beaches and melting ice creams. The image shifted, gave her gentle walks hand in hand with a man who smiled warmly. Green grass. Blue skies. White cloud. Bird song.

I remember.

She tore off her clothes, dropped the