The Barghest

Having teamed up with Theo, a very old and surprisingly chivalrous vampire lord, Bonnie and her samurai friend Masaaki now have a slightly better chance of surviving the next couple weeks. But trouble calls when one of Theo's old friends gets kidnapped by a rival lord, and he and the samurai leave the untrained queen alone while they rush headlong into a trap. Angry at suddenly being the rich errand girl, Bonnie makes a very unwise decision to go rescue a barghest from local slavers—the same barghest that both of her guardians repeatedly warned her not to save because barghests eat vampires. But she is inexplicably drawn to the huge beast called Björn, even as he makes her tremble in fear. Now, while Theo is missing in action, and Masaaki is wandering lost in the Alaskan wilderness, Bonnie alone must find a way to keep the barghest from eating everyone who pisses him off while simultaneously staying out of the hands of the Inquisition.