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    Passing: A Crusade Series Story
    Passing: A Crusade Series Story
    Passing: A Crusade Series Story
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    Passing: A Crusade Series Story

    By Nancy Holder

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    The vampires have declared war on humanity--and they have won. Now it's New Year's Eve in Salamanca, Spain--and the Academy's graduating class of vampire hunters are taking their final exam--stake the Cursed Ones attacking in the fog, or die. Jenn has a fighting partner named Antonio de la Cruz...and he has a big secret...but Jenn's got a secret, too, and it nearly takes them both out. "Passing" is the short story that launched the smash dark fantasy series, CRUSADE.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNancy Holder
    Release dateJun 5, 2011
    ISBN9781452444369
    Passing: A Crusade Series Story
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    Nancy Holder

    Nancy Holder has published more than 200 short stories and seventy-eight books, including the New York Times bestselling Wicked series. She lives in San Diego with her daughter, Belle, and far too many animals. Visit her at Nancy Holder.com.

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      Passing - Nancy Holder

      PASSING

      ~ A Crusade Series Story ~

      By

      Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié

      New York Times Bestselling Authors of the Wicked series

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié

      CRUSADE SERIES:

      Passing (short story), 2009 - first appeared in The Eternal Kiss, edited by Trisha Telep.

      Crusade, 2010

      Damned, 2011

      ~

      It was almost time--a few minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve. New Year, new vampire hunter. Would I be the one?

      I sat down shakily in the ancient stone chapel of the former Universidad de Salamanca, the most ancient university in Spain. When the war broke out, most of the universities in Europe shut down. The Americans figured the vampires would never attack us on our native soil. We paid dearly for our arrogance.

      For the last twelve years, Salamanca had been the home of the Academia Sagrada Familia Contra los Vampiros. It was the school for vampire hunters--my school. There were foreign students from all over the world, because the Academia was the best. Academia graduates took out the most vamps, and they had the highest survival rate. There were six living Academicians; Juan Maldonaldo had been a hunter for nine years. Unbelievable.

      Not that the survival rate was very good--out of the original ninety-six of us in our class, we were down to eighteen. We shuffled into the chapel in our ceremonial black robes, our hoods concealing our faces. We were about to take our final exam. Only one of us would pass.

      I had dreaded this moment for two long years--the moment my foot crossed the threshold of the Academy--and feared it for two months. Diego, our Master, had warned us that as the time grew near, we would experience high anxiety. About a dozen of my classmates woke screaming from nightmares. There was a lot of jogging in the middle of the night. Even though drugs and alcohol were forbidden, I knew that people were swigging wine and

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