It is called a Love Curse. It bounds Ophelia McQuoid witchy soul in a tall, red crystal. She is only released every 50 years for a total of 30 days. In order for her to break the curse, she needed to find an immortal soul that would trade his life for hers, but curses can't be broken that easy. There is a clause that comes with it. Ophelia has to make the immortal fall in love with her and this love must be the truest form of love. After 250 years of her trying, Ophelia has come to realize that 30 days was not enough to make someone fall in love with her. Especially when she can't move anywhere far from the crystal. When she reappears again, she realizes that not only is her time is running short. The red crystal was draining her life force. If she doesn't find love soon, she'll forever fade into the glass and disappear from the face of earth. That was until she awoken 50 years later and found herself not just with any immortal, but a daring, obnoxious vampire king that won't let her go.

A prophecy. A lie. A love to conquer centuries. *** Cassandra is a woman without a last name, a woman who has toiled through life just grazing the edge of survival. To her, the world is bleak and disappointing... That is until she realizes the part of the world she's seen is just a veil over the immortal one. And that her displacement has been founded and prophesied for centuries. She is a seer, a prophetess. Locked within her are the answers her tireless, blood-hungry predators search so longingly for. Her purpose is suddenly known. Like a flame to wick, everything around her ignites and burns, throwing her into the unknown, into an even tougher feat of survival. She must take shelter with a man, a stranger, someones who until this point in her life had been only mythical. Lost in Siberia, she will need to flee and disappear under his protection. There's only one problem. He's an immortal who thrives on blood. A vampire, a deserter from his species. And he's irresistible. *** Winner of The 2019 Fiction Awards: Best Paranormal*** -Book One of The Blood Lust Series- Content warning: This story contains mature sexual content, past references to sexual assault/abuse, explicit violence, murder, gore, depression.