DESTINY IS MADE BY THOSE BOLD ENOUGH TO SHAPE IT For over 300 years, I honed my skills – preparing for a time when I might rule this world from the shadows. But that ended on the day when all magic was banished from this realm. I lost my immortality, becoming a mere human, with all their weaknesses and frailties. But, powers or not I – Gansetseg, daughter of Ogedei Khan – will never be one of them. Now, four years later, I have a choice. I can accept the hand that fate has dealt me – living my life, knowing that one day my light will fade. Or I can reject this mortal coil and embrace who I was meant to be. Madness, ruin, and even death await down this path, but I believe I have the will to forge my own destiny – the natural order be damned. A Higher Calling is a prequel novella set before the Bill of the Dead series but after the end of the Bill the Vampire series.