Hourglass (Evernight)

Children's Literature
- Cara Chancellor
Even as a student at Evernight Academy, a boarding school for vampires, Bianca could never imagine herself making the transformation from half-vampire, half-human into one of the undead. Her parents assured her it was only a matter of time before her first taste of human blood would tip the hourglass to count down to her first kill. Now that Evernight has been attacked by vampire hunters Black Cross—and she and her human boyfriend, Lucas, are the only ones in the Black Cross camp who know what she is—Bianca has vowed never to take that final step. Nevertheless they are in danger at every turn: Black Cross would kill them both if the truth were discovered, the Evernight vampires are hunting for their lost child, and the chilling wraiths who tried to kill her at school have not given up on their prize.