No Mercy

"...I miss her, the girl I once was and the life she once had. So naive and loyal, stubborn yet strong... Giuseppe Salvatore destroyed that girl the instant she saw him kill her brothers....After that, she eventually fell in love with a man she saw as her savior...until he too had destroyed what little bit had been left of her, stripped away her kindness and made her become ruthless, a true ripper. She never expected to turn her humanity back on; but when she did, all of the grief and remorse, self loathing and hatred, memories and pain...they consumed her. Destroyed her. Made her turn cold so she could survive. I look at how I once was and compare it to the reflection in the mirror I see every day and it...it terrifies me. That I could have been so weak as to have fallen so far from who I used to be."

Ashlynn Salvatore had never planned on returning to the town that she had despised for over a century.
She had never planned on finding her brothers alive as vampires.
She had never planned for the man she had spent the last ninety years hating and missing with equal measure to be there as well.