Best Vampire in SimeGen’s Reviewers Choice Awards! (spring 2001), Short listed in the 2002 Woman’s Day/Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year competition NOTICE: This work is copyrighted. It is licensed only for use by the original purchaser. Making copies of this work or distributing it to any unauthorized person by any means, including without limit email, floppy disk, file transfer, paper print out, or any other method constitutes a violation of International copyright law and subjects the violator to severe fines or imprisonment.
The entrance soon loomed before them, a cavernous hole framed by timber that looked older than Lyndhurst. Older than Michael.
“The timber’s not that old,” he said, half smiling as he handed her the flashlight. “Here, hold this.”
She shined the beam at the entrance. The light penetrated only a few feet of darkness before being swallowed. But it was enough to see the footprints. Michael squatted on his heels and ran his fingers around the outline of the prints.
“Zombies,” he said, indicating a scuffed section on one print. “See? Their step is heavy, and they drag their feet.
Jasper would leave no prints, and he would have carried Jake in.”
