The Chava Diamond Chronicles

Book excerpt: Chava Diamond’s writing career had risen to the top when she became the country’s number one best-selling novelist. It came as a surprise to her that her long-time agent wanted something new from her, something that she was neither interested in nor wanted to write about—vampires. She agreed that it was an up-an-coming genre, both in movies and on the television, but Chava was already busy with writing a new novel and finishing the latest. Lacking motivation, interest, and ideas, she gives in to Angela’s request and travels to Romania, a country she is not particularly fond of due to some previous bad experiences there. After meeting her Romanian tour guide, a young woman named Milena, Chava becomes interested in her story about the murders and disappearances of her family members. When Milena also disappears, Chava is stunned. Not having transportation or a tour guide, she reluctantly accepts the assistance of a handsome and mysterious man whom she meets by chance. While Alexandru, “Alex” to his friends, shows her around, he also appears to be her savior when multiple times strangers make attempts on Chava’s life. Dead bodies, disappearances, mystery castles’ secret chambers compare nothing to Chava’s suspicions about Alex who seems to be feared by everyone they encounter. Although she is drawn to him like a magnet, Chava has never been more determined in her life than about finding out Alex’s past, about the man who wears nothing but black, the color of hate.