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		<title>Infinity</title>
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<h2>Infinity &#8211; Summary</h2>
<p>At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.</p>
<p>Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.</p>
<p>But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. And he’s next on the menu.</p>
<p>As if starting high school isn&#8217;t hard enough&#8230;now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?</p>
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<p>**Note to Dark-Hunter fans</p>
<p>The Chronicles of Nick *is* Nick’s real and true past. There is a huge surprise (several actually) in the book that I don’t want to spoil, but when you read the book, everything you think is an inconsistency will make perfect sense to you. More than that, you will understand exactly why Nick is the way he is and why he continues to hate Acheron the way he does. But you have to be patient. All will be clear on May 25, 2010.</p>
<p>Nick’s series will run until it intersects with Night Pleasures and then Nick will have his own novel in the Dark-Hunter world.</p>
<p>Book one, Infinity, begins when Nick meets Kyrian.<br />
Book two will pick up the next day after Infinity ends and will be out Feb 2011.</p>
<p>Remember the one promise that I try to keep in every book: Just when you think you know the truth about a character or event, you find out that things are seldom what they seem. Nick is one of those characters. There’s a lot more to our little Cajun than what you’ve seen to date. That’s why it takes 12 books to tell his story.</p>
<p>There are many, many secrets you’ll learn about a lot of characters, including Cherise and especially Jaden and Jared. Just hold on&#8230; you ain’t seen nothing yet :)</p>
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<h2>Prologue</h2>
<p>Freewill.</p>
<p>Some  have called it the greatest gift bestowed on humanity. It is our ability to  control what happens to us and exactly how it happens. We are the masters of  our fate and no one can foist their will on us unless we allow  it.</p>
<p>Others say freewill is a crap myth. We have a preordained destiny  and no matter what we do or how hard we fight it, life will happen to us  exactly as it&#8217;s meant to happen. We are only pawns to a higher power that our  meager human brains can&#8217;t even begin to understand or comprehend.</p>
<p>My  best bud, Acheron, once explained it to me like this. Destiny is a freight  train rolling along on a set course that only the conductor knows. When we get  to the railroad crossing in our car, we can choose to stop and wait for the  train to pass us by, or try to pull out in front of it and beat that bad boy  across.</p>
<p>That choice is our freewill.</p>
<p>If we choose to rush ahead,  the car we&#8217;re in might stall on the tracks. We can then choose to try and  start the car or wait for the train to plow into us. Or we can get out to run  and fight the destiny of the train slamming into us and killing us where we  stand. By choosing to run, our foot could get caught in the tracks or we could  slip and fall.</p>
<p>We could even say to ourselves, &#8220;there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m dumb  enough to fight the train&#8221; and hang back to safely wait. Then the next thing  we know, a truck rams us from behind, throwing us straight into the train&#8217;s path.</p>
<p>If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by  the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into  hamburger.</p>
<p>I personally, don’t believe in this crap. I say I control my  destiny and my life.</p>
<p>No nothing controls me.</p>
<p>Ever.</p>
<p>I am  what I have become because of the interference and secrets of one creature.  Had things been done differently, my life would have been a whole other  enchilada. I would not be where I am today and I would have had a life worth  living instead of the nightmare my life has become.</p>
<p>But no, by keeping  his deepest secrets, my best friend betrayed me and turned me into the  darkness I’m learning to embrace. Our fates and destinies were mashed together  by a freak event that happened when I was a kid and I curse the day I ever  called Acheron Parthenopaeus my friend.</p>
<p>I am Nick Gautier.</p>
<p>And  this is my life and how things should have been&#8230;</p>
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<h2>Invincible &#8211; Summary</h2>
<p>Nick Gautier’s day just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, he survived the zombie attacks, only to wake up and find himself enslaved to a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul.<br/></p>
<p>His new principal thinks he’s even more of a hoodlum than the last one, his coach is trying to recruit him to things he can’t even mention and the girl he’s not seeing, but is, has secrets that terrify him.</p>
<p>But more than that, he’s being groomed by the darkest of powers and if he doesn’t learn how to raise the dead by the end of the week, he will become one of them&#8230;</p>
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<h2>Infamous &#8211; Summary</h2>
<p>The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters.</p>
<p>Now Nick’s saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume&#8230;</p>
<p>Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That’s the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn’t the average teenager. He’s a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him.</p>
<p>He’s learned to annihilate zombies and raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive and keep a girlfriend so dang hard? But that isn’t the primary skill he has to master. Survival is.</p>
<p>And in order to survive, his next lesson makes all the others pale in comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known.</p>
<p>Or he’ll be the one who ends the world. With enemies new and old gathering forces, he will have to call on every part of himself to fight or he’ll lose everyone he cares about.</p>
<p>Even himself.</p>
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