🩸 WELCOME TO THE FOURTH NOVEL OF THE DARK BLOOD SERIES 🩸 --- WELCOME TO THE FROZEN VEIN The night does not always burn. Sometimes- it freezes. Welcome to a story where silence is sharper than fangs, where control is mistaken for strength, and where desire is the one thing that threatens to crack the ice. Sunghoon has never lost control. He learned early that emotion was dangerous. That attachment was weakness. That blood must be ruled-or it would rule him. So he became cold. Precise. Untouchable. Until her. She doesn't challenge him with rebellion. She doesn't tempt him with fear. She stands too close. Speaks too softly. Looks at him like she isn't afraid of what lives under his skin. And the frozen vein in his chest begins to ache. "You don't feel nothing," she tells him once. "You just refuse to let it move." In a world reshaped by broken thrones, half-blood promises, and bonds that no longer obey ancient rules, the coldest vampire will face the most dangerous truth of all- Some hearts don't shatter when they melt. They bleed. Seven bonds are tightening. Desire is no longer quiet. And the night is learning that control can fracture just as easily as hunger. 🩸 This is not a story of fire. 🩸 This is a story of ice giving way. 🩸 This is where restraint becomes temptation. Welcome to the fourth novel of the Dark Blood series. Welcome to The Frozen Vein ❄️🩸 The night is ready. Are you?

Jake never belonged anywhere. Too human for the night. Too dangerous for the day. The vampires called him unstable. The humans never saw what he really was. So he learned to smile. Learned to pretend hunger was just another bad habit. Learned to keep moving before anyone noticed the way his blood reacted to things it shouldn't. Until her. Yoon Ara didn't look at him like he was broken. Didn't flinch when his control slipped. Didn't ask him to explain the darkness he carried under his skin. She touched him like he was real. And that was the problem. Because Dark Blood responded to her faster than thought. Because the bond burned brighter in him than it ever had in the pure-bloods. Because wanting her felt terrifyingly close to needing her. > "If I lose control," he warned once, voice shaking, "you need to run." She didn't run. She stepped closer. And for the first time in his life, Jake wondered if being half was not a flaw- But a bridge. Seven bonds were tightening. The night was changing. And a half-blood was about to learn that love could be the most dangerous hunger of all. --- 🩸 A story of desire without certainty. 🩸 Of love chosen by someone who was never whole. 🩸 Of a promise that might finally give a half-blood a place to stand.

🩸 CRIMSON PRIDE A Dark Blood Novel Jay had never believed in mercy. Power was balance. Desire was control. And love-love was a weakness that got blood spilled. He ruled the night with discipline, his Dark Blood refined into something sharp and immaculate. No hunger he could not command. No emotion he allowed to linger. Until she refused to kneel. Min A-ra did not look away when his shadow swallowed the room. She did not tremble when his gaze pinned her in place. She met him with calm defiance-bright, steady, unimpressed. And that unsettled him more than fear ever could. She was not joy incarnate. She was not destiny written in blood. She was a question. Jay did not reach for her. Did not touch. Did not claim. He watched. Because desire, when uncontrolled, was the fastest way to fall. But Dark Blood had begun to change. Somewhere in the city, a vampire had chosen love over eternity-and the night had not forgotten. A mark burned faintly beneath Jay's skin, awakening something he had spent centuries mastering. Not hunger. Doubt. > "You can own the night," she said once, quietly, "but you don't own me." For the first time, Jay wondered what it meant to want something he could not dominate. Seven bonds were tightening. Six stories were beginning. And pride-pride would be tested. Because some loves are not taken. They are earned. And when desire finally bows- it will not be gentle. --- 🩸 A slow-burn story of power, restraint, and love chosen without fate. 🩸 Dark Blood does not forgive easily. 🩸 Neither does pride.

🩸 THE FIRST BITE OF ETERNITY A Dark Blood Novel Heeseung had survived centuries without mercy. Empires fell. Bloodlines vanished. Love died first-every time. He learned early that desire was hunger, and hunger was death. Until she smiled. Seo Hae-in did not scream when she saw his eyes glow crimson in the dark. She did not run when the night bent toward him. She only laughed softly, as if happiness had never learned the meaning of fear. And something inside Heeseung broke. Her blood did not call to him like the others. It did not burn his throat or sharpen his fangs. It quieted him. For the first time in eternity, the monster did not want to feed. But Dark Blood does not forgive weakness. The night begins to whisper. Six unseen heartbeats answer his own. A mark blooms on his skin-ancient, burning, alive. Somewhere beyond the shadows, other vampires awaken with the same pain. Seven desires. Seven bonds. One prophecy written in blood. > "If you love her," the darkness warns, "you will doom them all." Yet Heeseung finds himself standing between her fragile happiness and an immortal world that demands sacrifice. Because loving Seo Hae-in is no longer a choice. It is a curse. It is salvation. It is the first bite of eternity. And once desire is unleashed- there is no going back. --- 🩸 A story of forbidden love, eternal hunger, and a bond that ties seven fates together. 🩸 Dark Blood will rise. 🩸 Joy will bleed.

A girl who has everything, yet feels empty. A man who has nothing, yet carries the weight of the world. An eleven-year age gap. A love the world calls forbidden. 💔 Families will object. 🔥 Society will whisper. ⚖️ Choices will shatter them. But what happens when love refuses to bow down to rules of class, age, and tradition? ✨ "Some stories aren't meant to be easy... but they're worth fighting for." ✨

Kim Taehyung had everything-power, wealth, and a business empire that made rivals tremble. But his heart remained untouchable, locked behind walls no one dared to breach. Until YN. Fifteen years younger, full of dreams and innocence, she was never meant to cross his path. But one reckless night changed everything, leading to a secret that would bind them together and shake both their worlds. Now, facing family betrayal, society's judgment, and threats to his empire, Taehyung and YN must answer one question: Is love enough to build a future, or will their world crumble before it begins? A story of forbidden love, power, sacrifice, and the courage to choose heart over convention.

Arhaan Sharma, a bubbly eighteen-year-old, hides a deep ache-his divorced parents, YN and Tahir, still love him but not each other. A hidden diary reveals the truth of their broken past, pushing him to reunite them. But when old wounds resurface, anger shatters their bond with him too. On the brink of losing everything, memories, regret, and his daring plan for their remarriage force them to face the love they never truly lost.

✨ TEASER - Lee Yn walked into HYBE as a simple legal intern- quiet steps, soft eyes, no expectations. She didn't know two worlds were waiting for her. James saw her first. CORTIS's rising legend. 22, fearless on stage but gentle everywhere else. He fell for her the way dawn falls on a sleeping city- slow, soft, and inevitable. To him, she wasn't just a girl. She was home he never knew he needed. But fate had a cruel symmetry. Taehyung noticed her too. BTS's icon. 32, magnetic, unpredictable. He was never supposed to fall- not for someone so young, not for someone his dongsaeng loved, not for someone who smiled like she could melt his walls. Yet he did. Quietly. Dangerously. Completely. The love triangle didn't begin with confessions. It began with glances. With James watching her laugh- and Taehyung watching James. With Taehyung helping her reach a file- and James feeling his chest tighten. With three hearts beating in the same room, never in the same rhythm. Taehyung's love was obsession wrapped in silence. James's love was devotion wrapped in sunlight. And Yn? She was the gravity neither man could break free from. The world saw two idols. She saw two truths: One loved her like he'd burn the world for her. The other loved her like he'd hold her world together. Only one would win her heart. But until the final moment- no one would know who she would choose. Not even her.