Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.

His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe.

You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.