Hunting Kat
4/5
()
About this ebook
A riveting stand-alone short story from bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.
Kat is a sixteen-year-old vampire, and she's not too happy about it. After an experiment-gone-wrong and a bullet to the heart, she now hungers for human blood, and the worst part about that is the guilt. But guilt isn't the only thing stressing her. Kat is being hunted by the Edison Group, a dangerous Cabal that is responsible for her undead state. Kat is running out of places to hide, and she has no one to turn to—until she meets Chad and Neil. They're on the run like she is, and they offer to help Kat against their common enemy. But the boys aren't all that they seem, and for Kat, deciding whether to trust them may be a matter of life or death.
Set in the world of Kelley Armstrong's New York Times bestselling Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising series, "Hunting Kat" will leave you on the edge of your seat and thirsting for more.
Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong is the author of over fifty novels, including the Rip Through Time mysteries and the horror novel, Hemlock Island. She lives with her family in Canada.
Read more from Kelley Armstrong
Empire of Night Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Forest of Ruin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sea of Shadows Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Darkest Powers: Complete Trilogy Collection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wherever She Goes: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chaotic: A Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Campus Chills Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKisses from Hell Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories By Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Four Summoner's Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Out of Tune: All New Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related to Hunting Kat
Related ebooks
Chaotic: A Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dreaming Darkness: Volume 1: Dreaming Darkness, #1 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dreaming Darkness: Volume Two: Dreaming Darkness, #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Calling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gathering Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wherever She Goes: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Early to Death, Early to Rise: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Reckoning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Campus Chills Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Awakening Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pet Shop Boys: A Short Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Fallen Prey: A Rockton Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Summoning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Who Needs Enemies: Harri Phillecky, PI, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Before I Wake Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fang Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Storm Born Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Watcher in the Woods: A Rockton Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shadow Heir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Carniepunk: The Cold Girl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDarkest Fear Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Iron Crowned Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kisses from Hell Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Spartan Destiny Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
YA Horror For You
Missing Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prom Queen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Surprise Party Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Asylum Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Clown in a Cornfield Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Road to Nowhere Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The New Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chain Letter: Chain Letter; The Ancient Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murders in the Rue Morgue Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dread Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Halloween Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wrong Number Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vespertine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Betrayal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cellar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mary Shelley Club Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The First Horror Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Full Tilt Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heaven Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5White Smoke Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein: The Deluxe eBook Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warm Bodies: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Delicious Monsters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Suffering Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Hunting Kat
50 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really like this world Armstrong created. One of my all time favourite series. yay!
I just found out there's a whole pile of short stories, that take place in the timeline. So excuse me while I read them all. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was a good but short story and the reason for 3 stars is that reason and because the characters are just there. The reader doesn't know anything about them except that Kay has been part of an experiment by the Edison Group. I understand that this is part of the Darkest Powers/Darkness Gathering series but I don't know if there is more of these characters or not, but all of this said, it is a good short story to kill time with and will keep the readers interest, as do most if not all of Ms Armstrongs books.
1 person found this helpful
Book preview
Hunting Kat - Kelley Armstrong
HUNTING KAT
Kelley Armstrong
Contents
Begin Reading Now
An Excerpt from The Calling
Chapter One
Back Ads
Copyright
About the Publisher
Begin Reading Now
I stretched out on the lounge chair in front of our motel room.
"Basking in the sun, mon chaton? Marguerite’s French-accented voice sounded behind me.
You have been doing a lot of that lately."
Can’t get sun cancer now.
No, you just like thumbing your nose at the myth.
I grinned. A sunbathing vampire. So Dracula-retro.
She sighed. I tilted my head back to look at her as she stepped out the screen door. Like me, Marguerite is a vampire. She’s been one a lot longer, though. Over a hundred years, though she looks twenty, the age when she died. Eternally beautiful. Well, in Marguerite’s case, at least—she’s tiny with blond curls and big blue eyes. I’d thought she was an angel when I first met her. She was my angel, rescuing me from a science experiment and from parents who weren’t my parents at all, but people paid to care for me.
That was ten years ago. I was sixteen now, and undead for six months. Marguerite had nothing to do with making me a vampire. That was the experiment, plus a bullet to the heart.
Marguerite had known what I was all along. That’s why she’d taken me. She’d never told me the truth, though. I found out the hard way, waking up on a morgue slab. I understand why she kept it a secret—she wanted me to grow up normal—but I haven’t quite gotten over it. I don’t tell her that. When it comes to feeling guilty, Marguerite doesn’t need any help.
Are you hungry?
she asked, holding out a travel mug.
Not for that.
She set it down beside me. I could smell the blood, warmed to body temperature. Like that made a difference.
You need to drink, Katiana,
she said.
It’s stale. Now that . . .
I waved at a man three doors down, passed out drunk. That’s a proper breakfast. Not like he’d notice. He’s already going to have a killer hangover. A missing pint of blood wouldn’t matter.
You are too young to drink alcohol.
Ha-ha.
I am serious, Kat. Whatever is in his blood will be in yours. Drugs, alcohol . . . You have to consider that.
No, I need to consider what I am. A hunter. I need to hunt, Mags. You do.
"And so will you, mon chaton, when you are—"
Psychologically and emotionally ready.
I tried to keep the edge out of my voice. But you’re going to talk about it with the other vamps, right? That’s why we’re going to this meeting in New York.
We are going for many reasons.
But you are going to ask them whether I should start hunting.
Yes, I will. Now drink. We still have a long drive.
Marguerite went back inside to get ready. I drank the blood. It was like eating store-bought chocolate chip cookies—I could taste hints of what I really wanted, what I craved, but they were hidden under a leaden layer of foul crap.
As I sipped, I eyed the drunk guy and imagined sinking my fangs into his neck. Imagined his blood, hot and rich. The back of my throat ached so much I could barely gag down my blood-bank breakfast.
I know I sound like a coldhearted bitch, fantasizing about drinking some guy’s blood, like I’m brutally nonchalant about the whole vampire situation. I’m not. I have my good days. And I have my bad ones, too, when I can’t get out of bed in the morning, when I lie there and think and worry.
Am I going to be sixteen forever? Marguerite says no, that the genetic modification experiment was supposed to get rid of the eternal youth thing, which when you think about it, isn’t really such a blessing, being one age forever, never able to settle in one place, make friends, get a job, fall in love. . . .
What if the modifications failed? What if I am sixteen for the next three hundred years? I think about all the things I didn’t get to do before I turned. Things I might never get to do.
Even if the modifications took, how would that work? I can’t be injured, can’t get sick. Does that mean I’m invulnerable, but not immortal? That I’ll die