billxmaggie
🩸The Scent of Ruin
Amelia Vance has always been unlucky.
As a shy, ordinary human working late-night shifts, she thought the escalating violence that followed her was just a consequence of bad timing. She has no idea that her quiet, pale blood is a biological anomaly-a beacon whose irresistible scent drives vampires into a feral frenzy, threatening to expose the ancient world of the undead to human eyes. To the shadowy Vampire Hierarchy, The Consilium Noctis, Amelia is not a victim; she is a global catastrophe who must be erased.
Adam Perez is the one sent to clean up the mess.
Adam is the Hierarchy's most lethal Cleaner: centuries old, utterly ruthless, and draped in the elegant, cold armor of a floor-length coat and zero emotion. His mission is simple: eliminate Amelia and silence the chaos she creates.
But the moment Adam presses the lethal black leather glove to her throat in a dark alley, his life ends. The primal, devastating force of the Mate Bond snaps into place, paralyzing him. He cannot kill her. Now, his body screams to protect the woman his maker ordered him to destroy.
Hunted by the assassins who want to reclaim Adam's rogue power, and targeted by his tyrannical Maker, Malachi Thorne, Adam drags Amelia into the vampire underground. Forced into brutal, inescapable proximity, Adam fights the bond and his growing obsession, while Amelia quickly realizes her only chance for survival lies in trusting the cold, beautiful monster who failed to murder her.
To survive, they must betray their entire world. But to find freedom, they might have to sacrifice their fated love.