Night of the Living Dante: Aurora Sky: Vampire Hunter, #4.5

By Nikki Jefford

The bite. The blood. The kill. The rush.

 

Dante has just been assigned Aurora Sky's mentor. Before they ever meet, he goes on a mission up north in the Alaska interior with his old partner and informant, Janine.

 

Undercover, and on the hunt, the team tracks down a nest of vampires addicted to blood and drugs. But things don't go according to plan...

 

April 2023 update includes new scenes + Dante meeting Aurora for the first time from his POV.

 

(In this Aurora Sky: Vampire Hunter story, Dante meets some vamps he will run into again in vol. 5, Whiteout.)

 

Full of thrills, chills, and…Dante!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nikki Jefford
• Release date: Nov 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781386841463

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or the author has used them fictitiously.

Copyright © 2015, 2023 Nikki Jefford

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Cover by Najla Qamber Designs

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DANTE

They waited until dark to leave Fairbanks.

As Dante drove south on the interstate, the last traces of city lights vanished in the rearview mirror. There were no streetlights along this part of the Parks Highway—only the eerie glow of trees darting past the headlights like creatures in the night.

Dante’s partner, Janine, had the location of a small gang of vampires holed up in the Alaska Interior. Fortunately for the agency, one of the suckers had a drug addiction. That addiction brought him into Fairbanks from time to time, and no vampire flew under Janine’s radar in Fairbanks.

She stretched her long, lean legs in the seat beside him. Tonight, she wore black lace-up boots over sleek vinyl pants. With legs like those on full display, Dante had trouble keeping an eye on the dark road. It was further distracting when Janine began massaging her neck while staring out the window.

This wasn’t the first time Dante had seen her in a corset, but tonight her midnight blue bodice was attached to black fishnet sleeves that stretched from her shoulders to her thumbs.

Before Dante’s snowboarding accident and recruitment with the agency, he wouldn’t have gone for a Goth chick. Side by side, he and Janine looked like a complete mismatch with Dante in his clean-cut blue jeans and fitted tee.

But they were both committed to fighting evil and Dante didn’t care how she came packaged.

Then again, maybe Janine wasn’t really Goth. She was undercover. Dante wondered what she looked like beneath all the makeup and black hair dye. He’d only ever seen her with layers of paint.

Dante punched the gas pedal. Chances of a moose wandering onto the road were low since Alaska was experiencing uncommonly little snowfall for January. That meant the big animals kept to the woods where they could walk and munch. The light snow dustings made for easy meandering.

Meanwhile, the East Coast kept getting hammered in snow. Mother Nature. Fickle creature. Just look at what she could