Introduction: I was born and raised in Guthrie, Oklahoma鈥攁 town with 10,000 people. Mama runs a vintage diner inherited from family and the farthest I鈥檝e been from home is a thirty-minute car ride to Oklahoma City. It's been a traditional middle-America upbringing.Until I have to defend myself from a vampire at sixteen.Suddenly, life is fight training, classes about monsters, and possessing a power I don鈥檛 understand or know the origin of鈥攁ll made more complicated by a crush on my instructor, Agent Thirteen. I don鈥檛 want any of this, but The Agency promises to pay Mama鈥檚 medical bills and making sure she鈥檚 taken care of always comes first. It鈥檚 only been the two of us for years.Becoming a paladin means sacrifice....