Lydia, a pale, brooding library worker with a love for all things dark and poetic, lives a quiet life surrounded by dusty tomes and shadows. Her world begins to shift when Kori walks in, radiant, stylish, and centuries old. A vampire who keeps up with every trend to blend in, Kori has never been in love, despite her long life and countless flings. But something about Lydia, the way she disappears into books, her unapologetic gloom, her waist-length black hair, pulls Kori in like a slow-burning obsession. As Kori becomes a regular at the library, Lydia begins to notice the strange, captivating woman who seems to shimmer like gloss in the sunlight. What begins as curiosity slowly deepens into something far more powerful, and far more dangerous, for them both.

Ten years after high school, Lydia agrees to fake-date someone at her reunion-only to find out it's Kori King. The girl she never really got over. Three days. One hotel bed. Zero chance of keeping it fake.

collection of korydia short stories

Kori is golden. Everyone knows it. She glows with the kind of warmth that draws people in-easy laughs, a voice like honey, and sunlight that seems to follow wherever she goes. Lydia is the opposite. She drifts like moonlight, quiet, magnetic, almost unknowable. People notice her in the way they notice stars on a clear night, with awe, but from a distance. They've shared a campus for three years. Mutual friends, same buildings, similar circles. And yet, not once have their paths truly crossed. It's like the universe was keeping them apart. Something shifts. Not all at once. Not fireworks. Not thunderclaps. Just a pull. Soft. Gradual. Inevitable.

"ᵐᵃᵈᵉ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᵐᵃʳᵏ ᵒⁿ ᵐᵉ, ᵃ ᵍᵒˡᵈᵉⁿ ᵗᵃᵗᵗᵒᵒ" 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘺𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳?

" 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩. "