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The Book of Tara: The Beginning (Synopsis)

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The book of Tara: The Beginning is set in 1967 at the time when the local residents of Mozambique declared war on the Portuguese rule they were under.
The local residents either fled or were internally displaced to other countries. The same happened to Tara’s family. They were on their way to meet a boat who could take them back to England when they were attacked by opportunistic thieves during the night.  Tara escaped into the bushveld, running away from the men, when a vampire swooped down and bit her on the shoulder.  When she fell, the men caught up with her and hit her over the head with a log. Thinking she was dead, they buried her in a makeshift grave.
When she awoke at last she had already turned but had memory loss. She didn’t know who she was, where she was, what had happened to her.
The first chapter is all about how she makes the discovery that she had turned into a vampire.
In the second chapter, three years has passed and she has learned how to cope with her abilities, what she could do and what not.  She isolates herself from people but an unexpected event causes her to follow, rescue and meet up with Richard, a young man travelling around the world. He convinces her to go with him on the ship bound for America, not knowing what she is.  Unknowing to them both, the particular ship they found themselves on, happened to be a slave trader who picked up immigrants to sell to the highest bidder in countries such as America.
Tara falls in love with Richard but cannot give voice of her love for him, as she is scared he will reject her.  But he does find out.
Eventually the ship reaches their destination in America and the real nature of the ship’s crew is revealed when the immigrants find themselves being thrown into holding cells.  It is up to Tara to rescue them and with Richard’s help they get most of the immigrants out and safely to the forest surrounding the buildings.  Just as Tara think they’ve made it, Richard was shot and Tara flees with his bleeding body into the forest where she tries to turn him into an immortal.  Richard wants nothing of it and dies, triggering a most unusual reaction from Tara which should have been impossible for her to accomplish.
Early in the story mention is made of the strict vampire society called Stregoni Beneficia, and of Colonel Samuel Nicolson, half human, half vampire. Nicolson is on the hunt for a particular bad vampire, Sinclair, and on this hunt stumbles upon Tara, and a new hunt for the extraordinary vampire girl becomes priority.
Tara flees deeper into America and tries to commit suicide, but Nicolson saves her and she is taken back to headquarters in Russia where they teach newly turned vampires to adapt and safely mingle with human beings without being discovered.
It is here she meets her greatest challenge and ally, a shape shifter with a dark past, who teaches her everything he knows in the most unconventional ways.
But the hunt for Sinclair is yet to draw to a conclusion, and sometimes the hunter becomes the hunted, especially if the price is a young Beast Master called Tara.
Synopsis to the book of Tara: The Beginning
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