It's a tough life being a music student, juggling lessons, practice, rehearsals, lectures as well as navigating through the social hierarchy.  Bella Swan, a gifted cellist, is given the opportunity to attend the prestigious Manhattan School of Music.  But it seems that she gets more than she bargained for when she meets the stunningly sexy piano major Edward Cullen.  When the rivalries heat up, and the competitive claws come up, musically and romantically, can Bella come out in the top of her class and win the love of her life?    

A chance encounter on an ill-fated flight brings two unlikely strangers together in a fight for survival against the elements and against themselves.  Faced with the cruelty of fate, will Edward be able to save Bella, or will he give in to his base desire and drink her blood? B/E, AU

Preview Chapter 8:

His eyes were now sinister and dark.  He was leaning down by my shins, holding them close to his head.  It felt good to have his cold breath against my heated skin.  He was kissing my leg and I vaguely put two and two together.  He was why my body was feeling so strange.  The smile that played on my lips when I first saw him quickly disappeared.  The pain.  What was that?  It felt like a vacuum had latched on and was stealing the wind from my lungs, the beats from my heart, the acid from my stomach.  I was being robbed of life.  

His eyes quickly flickered over mine, but he must not have liked what he saw, as he clenched his eyes shut quickly.  His face was abnormally calm for someone who was slowing killing me, but I loved it anyway.

NC-17 for dark themes, language, and adult content in later chapters