Book excerpt: Kes is obsessed with killing Nikolai — to prevent him from destroying Earth nine hundred years into the future. Kes is obsessed with eliminating Nikolai before he's reborn as the evil vampire who destroys Earth and propels her family into the past. Once she finds the Nikolai of her present is a good and kind man she's not sure she can hold the very sexy human accountable for something he hasn't yet done.