Awake While I Die - Paperback

by K. E. Woodruff (Author)

Winner of the International Vampire Film and Arts Festival 2022 Golden Stake Award

The only thing worse than living is living forever. When seventeen-year-old Jason Harper enters the woods, he has no intention of leaving. Suicide is his endgame. Only the bullet never finds its mark, and Jason makes it out of the woods alive. Besides dirtied clothes and a few scratches, he leaves the woods unscathed. Except for one tiny bite mark on the side of his neck, everything seems to be normal -- well, as normal as can be expected when you're dragged into small-town life with an optimistic mother and her too-perfect boyfriend -- until nothing is. If he thought life was complicated before, now it's a living nightmare. Because vampires are real, and he's one of them. As the thirst for blood gets harder to ignore, Jason must learn to subdue the beast inside before it turns him into the monster he's always known himself to be. That is, if the demons of his past don't kill him first.