On the way back she is seized by a series of spasms, and founds out much later that they came from her Imprint with Loren breaking as he died.Īcting from apparent grief at his loss, Neferet declares war on all humans. This shatters Damien and the Twins' last bit of faith in her. Zoey does her best to explain and she manages to get them to listen until Erik shows up and reveals her infidelity and her relationship with Loren.

Aphrodite is terrified to discover that her own mark has disappeared and runs away through the secret exit with Stevie Rae after her, leaving Zoey alone with the rest of her friends. When Zoey is about to invoke Earth, Stevie Rae attacks Aphrodite in a fit of jealousy and drinks from her and Changes into the first red adult vampyre. Because of Loren's meddling, Stevie Rae arrives before Zoey has the chance to explain her to her friends and they feel betrayed, but agree to finish the ritual. She had planned to use the occasion to cure Stevie Rae and introduce her to her friends. Heartbroken, Zoey leaves to get Damien, the Twins and Aphrodite.

On the way, Zoey chances upon Loren and Neferet and hears him confess that Neferet had made him seduce Zoey, for her to become alienated from her closest friends, and that he actually loves Neferet. She pulls herself together and leaves to gather her friends, planning to tell them about Stevie Rae, to cast a circle and heal her. Erik walks in on them and angrily breaks up with Zoey. During the night Erik finishes the Change, she loses her virginity to Loren and Imprints with him, breaking her previous one with Heath. Zoey also feels more and more estranged from Erik, because of the lies she tells to hide her relationship with Loren. Much to everyone else's displeasure, she chooses Aphrodite, when she manifests a new affinity for the Earth. Among them is her best friend, Stevie Rae, and every second she grows further away from her humanity, but Zoey will fight for her even if she doesn't want it.īack at the House of Night, Zoey realizes that, as a leader of the Dark Daughters, she has to choose someone else to fill the position of Earth in her circle. Zoey is plagued by a terrible secret: Neferet, the High Priestess of the Tulsa House of Night, has been reviving the fledglings who had rejected the Change to add them to her personal army. The book has been since translated into more than 20 other languages including French, Spanish, German and Chinese. Martin's Press, an extension of Macmillan Publishers. Chosen is the third novel of the House of Night fantasy series, written by American authors P.C.

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