PRIMpriety - Overhill - E-book - ePub

Some days, it doesn't pay to get out of bed.When a bloke attacks his girlfriend outside Lyn's apartment at midday, Lyn can't save the twist without burning to death, herself. Lyn Burgess is a vampire, one of the rare few with the shadeshall, a rare illness that spawned the myth that sunlight burns all vampires to ashes. A cop friend of Lyn's (her cousin, several generations removed-not that she's told him) confesses that they can't figure out where the murderer went afterwards.
Lyn lets her cousin bribe her into tracking the murderer-but little do they know that the murder was only the lure.(A novelette of about 17k words)NOTE: This story is also available in a bundle that includes the short stories "Hello, Kitty" and "For Want of Cruelty".