title: The Tree of Life and Death
author:  Andrew Keyser 
description: Andrew was born in the wilds of Alaska and attended an elite educational institution called Home Schooling, leaving him plenty of time to read. He spent hours in the library reading everything he could get his hands on. One day was Shakespeare, the next fairy tales, then church history. He now lives in Washington and continues to read in excess, and has finally started putting his own stories down on paper. Check out his short stories and contact him at www.andrewkeyser.com. Thanks for reading!
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  The Darkest Kiss
  
  
  _Riley Jensen Book 6_
  
  
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  Keri Arthur
  
  
  
  
  
  **Chapter 1**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Being thrown out of a tree wasn’t my idea of fun.
  
  
  Granted, countless nestlings all over the world went through this every year,
  but they only had to do it once, and for them it was simply fly or die trying.
  
  
  I wasn’t a nestling, and I wasn’t built to die. Not easily, anyway. I was
  dhampire—the offspring of a newly turned vampirewhose dying seed somehow
  created life in the werewolf who raped and then killed him—and my bones were
  extraordinarily strong.
  
  
  Being pushed from a tree couldn’t kill me like it did those countless
  nestlings. But God, it could still _hurt_ . I mean, werewolves weren’t
  designed to fly, and muscles used