Some bloodlines are inherited. Others are hunted. Arden has spent months searching for her missing best friend, Sloane. The police have stopped looking. Everyone else has moved on. Arden refuses to. But when her investigation uncovers a pattern of missing women, strange blood tests, and people willing to kill to keep their secrets buried, she follows the trail straight into a world she was never supposed to know existed. A world ruled by vampires. Abducted and placed aboard an illegal human shipment, Arden wakes inside the gothic heart of Greyhaven, and she finds herself under the protection of Roman, the ancient and merciless King of Nocturne. Roman should have no reason to keep a human alive. Until he sees the results of her blood test. Something about Arden's blood is impossible. Something powerful people have been searching for. And when Roman begins reacting to her in ways neither of them understands, attraction becomes something far more dangerous-because vampire blood remembers what history has tried to erase. Now Arden must navigate a Court filled with beautiful monsters, political enemies, forbidden blood bonds, and a trafficking conspiracy that may lead directly to Sloane. But the deeper she digs, the clearer one thing becomes: Sloane wasn't taken by accident. And neither was Arden. Dark vampire romantasy • enemies-to-lovers tension • ancient bloodlines • vampire royalty • political intrigue • forbidden bonds • mystery • morally gray characters