What the Night Breaks

We share one heartbeat. Now the Vampire Court wants to decide which of us gets to keep it.

The Deveraux Estate is finally mine.

The locks answer to my blood. The wards obey my voice. The ancient vampire who once controlled every step I took has surrendered his authority to me.

But freedom means little when Ezekiel Deveraux still lives beneath my skin.

Our blood bond has fused our heartbeats, nervous systems, memories, and desires into something the Old Law was never written to allow. I feel his hunger as heat in my veins. His guilt settles inside my chest. Every touch blurs the boundary between what he wants and what I choose.

Then the Vampire Court arrives to judge us.

To the cold-eyed Adjutant conducting our evaluation, I am not Ezekiel's equal. I am a contaminated mortal, a dangerous anomaly, and a threat that can be erased before our bond spreads beyond control.

I have seventy-two hours to prove I have not been enthralled.

The problem is that I no longer know where Ezekiel ends and I begin.

He is prepared to sacrifice everything to secure my freedom, including his own life. But I refuse to become another debt he pays in blood. To survive the Court, I must prove that our connection has not destroyed my will.

And to do that, I may have to admit the truth I fear most.

Some part of me wants the bond.

Some part of me wants him.

The Court can threaten severance. It can question my humanity. It can sentence me for becoming something its laws cannot name.

But it will not decide whether my heart belongs to Ezekiel.

Only I can do that.

A dark vampire paranormal romance featuring an obsessive immortal protector, a reciprocal blood bond, shared memories, forced public partnership, vampire-court danger, desire versus free will, and a heroine fighting to define love on her own terms.