Thicker Than Water

Lydia Ross is eighteen, half-vampire and half-human, and what she wants most is to pass as ordinary. Her father is overprotective, so college is her chance to get away. She starts her freshman year in downtown Chicago and quickly makes human friends.

Just as she begins to feel she belongs, Lydia loses control of herself and attacks a classmate. The incident pulls back a curtain on a hidden world that has existed beneath her daily routine all along. Vampires, Fae and werewolves live there, and so do the dangers that come with them.

Lydia now has a foot in two camps: the blood family she was born into and the found family she has built at school. Neither side asks for less than loyalty, and her own identity is still unsettled.

The novel is a young adult urban fantasy with a college setting. It follows Lydia as she works toward self-acceptance and faces choices that offer no clean answer. The hardest is her biggest fear: telling the humans she cares about what she is, knowing they may walk away for good.