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Emily, Never Let the Right One Go – on the Modern Evil Podcast

Emily ran Fridays on the Modern Evil Podcast from May 11th, 2012 through November 1st, 2012. The following is a list of links to all 26 chapters. WARNING: The chapter descriptions below may contain SPOILERS.

Emily is one of two novels in the duology Never Let the Right One Go; the companion novel is Sophia. (Which book should you read first?) Each novel is available as an eBook, an audiobook and a podcast, and both novels have been made part of a single signed, numbered limited edition hardcover book.

  • Chapter 1 – In which Emily’s day of casual shopping is interrupted by her first glimpse of Nicholas, and her eyes are opened to the invisible layers of oppression and slavery built up around her, while her heart is opened wide, to let Nicholas in.
  • Chapter 2 – In which Emily, Nicholas, and Ken are brutally attacked by a vampire.
  • Chapter 3 – In which Emily attends Nicholas’ meeting, hoping to spend more time with him, and ends up meeting Terrence, someone whose life has been ravaged by his addiction to vampire blood, and she learns the dangers of using vampire blood as a quick-fix for every human injury.
  • Chapter 4 – In which Emily gets to know a real vampire, Justin, for the first time, learning what life is like for the new generation of young vampires, turned after vampire and human cultures had been integrated.
  • Chapter 5 – In which Emily learns about how vampires have secretly been manipulating human society for centuries, and how even moderately old vampires had been disenfranchised by the open alliance of vampires and humans.
  • Chapter 6 – In which Emily hears how vampires have been taking chief executive positions at most large corporations, making it impossible for humans to compete fairly for corporate leadership roles.
  • Chapter 7 – In which Emily sees that even the working-class have been displaced by vampires, taking over work like building construction because their superior strength and speed allows them to create more with less time, effort, and cost.
  • Chapter 8 – In which Nicholas finally gives his presentation, charismatically exhorting his audience to opt-out of vampire-assisted healthcare and the “blood tax”.
  • Chapter 9 – In which Emily accompanies Nicholas through an entire day of drawing blood from humans at one of the government-run blood centers, then feeding blood to a recovering vampire organ donor at the hospital.
  • Chapter 10 – In which Emily convinces her parents to give her control over her own healthcare choices, so she can opt-out, and receives a gift from Nicholas.
  • Chapter 11 – In which Emily goes on a road trip with Nicholas and his group, heading to Washington, D.C. for a protest rally at the White House.
  • Chapter 12 – In which Emily participates in a protest march around the vampire-run capitol.
  • Chapter 13 – In which several speakers at the rally in D.C. explain the global, military, economic, and political problems and rights-infringements instituted by the vampire interventions in human societies.
  • Chapter 14 – In which Nicholas and Emily head home from the rally and their conversation takes an odd turn – wherein Nicholas talks Emily into being turned into a vampire.
  • Chapter 15 – In which the new school year begins, and Emily finds a more suitable subject for the application of Nicholas’ ideas about standing up for vampires’ inherent right to reproduce.
  • Chapter 16 – In which Madison joins Emily at Nicholas’ meeting, Justin agrees to turn her, and they go through the whole thing that night, on camera and before a live audience.
  • Chapter 17 – In which Emily tries to see Madison the night after she’d been turned, then finds out Justin has already been arrested and meets Nicholas at the Police Station where Justin is being held.
  • Chapter 18 – In which Nicholas finally invites Emily out for coffee -their first date- and discusses the new direction he’d like to focus his efforts for making a real difference in the struggle against the system.
  • Chapter 19 – In which Emily avoids calling Austin as long as possible, but ends up asking him out in order to avoid disappointing Nicholas.
  • Chapter 20 – In which Austin and Emily go to the movies, and Emily invites him to Nicholas’ meeting the next week.
  • Chapter 21 – In which Emily strings Austin along enough to get him to show up to Nicholas’ meeting, where he doesn’t quite fit in until Nicholas convinces him to buy in completely.
  • Chapter 22 – In which Austin is weaned from the blood stipend and begins practicing the hunt, to try to open his mind to the true experience of being a vampire.
  • Chapter 23 – In which Nicholas, Emily, Ken, and Benjamin attempt to deliver Austin into the care of an older vampire to mentor him but, before reaching their destination, Austin’s hunger drives him over the edge and he begins attacking, eating and mutilating them one by one.
  • Chapter 24 – In which emergency responders try to help the survivors as much as they can, hindered by their opt-out status.
  • Chapter 25 – In which Nicholas’ group has trouble moving forward without him, and Emily likewise finds her life both interrupted and irrevocably altered by his passing – then she seems to discover a conspiracy working to dissolve the movement Nicholas had put into motion.
  • Chapter 26 – In which Emily remains dedicated to the cause until the bitter end.