Joanna

Joanna Gunter had been a nurse’s assistant a few months ago before she wandered out into the parking lot at the hospital she’d worked at for almost a decade and found herself begging for her life. The crazy-haired man in the medical coat had only smiled at her, assuring her he didn’t want to kill her; he only wanted to offer her a job. A few days later, she’d awoken here, at the asylum, a completely different person by all accounts.

Hines was a nut job, that was for certain. And Asteria was a power-crazy bitch. Joanna would’ve just as soon escaped and gone back to her other life if she would’ve thought that possible. But the urge to drink human blood probably wouldn’t have mixed well with her duties at the hospital, so she had little choice but to do as Hines told her to.

Which meant attempting to turn these Guardians back into humans and then kill them. The idea of these creatures still fascinated her. She was new enough to th