Ray Ayles

Child of Dusk Ray Ayles

Conchessa 'Chessa' Elisabeth Nurse Moved with her family from Barbados to the New England colony of Osborn Hill, Massachusetts where her father was chosen to govern. In the spring of her sixteenth year, her life is turned upside down when a group of gypsies arrives in her town. Fearing they may be witches, the town leader orders their arrest. But when shots are fired in panic, the secret the gypsies fought to keep is unleashed. They'd been harboring a vampire. He chooses Chessa as the weapon of the towns destruction, to exact revenge against those who massacred his family and turns her into a vampire . Chessa's blood lust overcomes her and in the span of three days, destroys nearly the entire population of Osborn Hill. Consumed with rage and guilt, Chessa uses her new vampire powers to exact her revenge against the vampire that created her.