Jeremy (The Jeremy Saga, #1)

Jeremy wants to be a normal teenage boy, but he has several problems most fourteen-year-olds do not have. After his father's passing, he must run the farm on his own. Next, they closed his high school and he's being bused to a nearby town to attend high school there. The only thing his new school has going for it is his new friend Ashley. Unfortunately, her best friend doesn't seem to like him at all! Then things get even worse!
While working in the mountains one day, he finds out just where all the vampire legends come from! Bitten by a creature whose venom nearly kills him, he finds that he is now a prime strigoi, and he needs fresh blood regularly to stay healthy. What's worse is there are other primes out there and they don't like competition! Now he's trying to survive as he learns to recognize and master the new strength and powers that he has acquired without getting himself and those around him all killed!

Richard Bush was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. Raised an Air Force brat, he has lived in places like Okinawa and San Francisco before returning to Las Vegas when his father left the Air Force, then moved sixty miles north to Overton Nevada. He has been writing science fiction since a young age but published nothing until the mid-nineties when he wrote a few articles for computer magazines. When he graduated from college he took a temporary job at a water district, but the dirty rats kept promoting him, so he stayed for fifteen years! He spent the last twenty-one years teaching high school math until retiring. Now he writes part time and putters around the house full time. He lives in San Tan Valley Arizona with his wife and a dog that's too intelligent for his own good!