Fairlight

At the age of twenty Velvet Washington, a witch of superior skills, decides the vampires are breaking the spirit of a truce by turning victims in order to increase their numbers. Unfortunately, the Council doesn’t care and insists she mind her own business and stop the night stalking in graveyards. However, Velvet thinks it is her duty to halt the monthly risings of the undead. Wilder has not lost any of his to her sword, so he can be generous enough to warn her to cease at once because the Coven as a whole, though reluctant to risk incident with the council, will get around to stopping her. Wilder finds her attitude ridiculous and tells her the folly of her single-minded prejudice and extreme arrogance. He tries to convey she is short-sighted in what she can accomplish with her talents, and what she could do for Fairlight as a whole community, rather than just for witches. Velvet ignores her grandmother’s advice and warnings not to trust a vampire, especially one she finds so attractive in the moonlight.