_RelleLebby_
She was never supposed to be in this world. Vesper Calloway built her life on precision and evidence, a Forensic Emergency Consultant called in when cases do not make sense, when the body is telling a different story than the official record, when the truth is buried in the gap between what happened and what everyone agreed to say happened. She never expected to become the evidence in someone else's case. When an ancient and terrifying demon lord makes a decision about her future without her consent, she is pulled into the hidden world beneath Chicago with a pregnancy she cannot end, a bloodline history she was never told, and enemies on every side who want what she is carrying before it can be born.
Caius Draveth has held his territory for three thousand years without making a single miscalculation. She is the first. A jealous succubus. A half-demon who believed she was chosen. An ancient entity that feeds on power. A council that wants her daughter as an asset. And a man who has never before had to reckon with the consequences of what he has done. This is not a love story by any comfortable definition. It is a story about survival and fury and what grows in the rubble when the person in the rubble refuses to stop moving. It is slow, dark, and explicit, and it does not flinch.
Chicago has never been this dangerous. Or this is alive.
©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.