Her terrified eyes swept the area. Something white bobbed in the water. As she stared, it slowly focused into a face and a neck; a floating body.

She looked to the vampires quickly. Their expressions said they'd seen it and, from the angle of their stares, more. In her imagination the sea was crowded with the dead, and she took an unconscious step back.

Her heart pounded in her ears and she strained against the sound of the water for something; a footfall, a voice, the ...