**A Love That Defines the Dark**
A world untouched by the supernatural, a man named Alaric faces betrayal from the very villagers he once considered family. Forced to flee for his life, he stumbles upon a dark power long buried and forgotten, an ancient force that offers him the promise of unimaginable strength and eternal life in exchange for his soul. Consumed by vengeance, he accepts this sinister bargain, awakening a darkness within himself that transforms him into the first of a new breed-a monstrous Vampire King, ruled by bloodlust and sustained by the very essence of life he now seeks to extinguish.
For centuries, Alaric's reign of terror permeates the land, his humanity stripped away as he wreaks havoc on fragile souls, turning them into slaves for his insatiable hunger. In the shadows of his dominion, the Lycans emerge, a creation borne of his wrath, further plunging the world into despair.
Elara, a courageous and compassionate dancer, willing to sacrifice everything to protect her beloved sister from the vampire king's predatory gaze. Each month, the villagers offer beautiful young women to satisfy Alaric's dark desires, and when Elara's sister becomes the next target, Elara bravely volunteers to take her place and harbors a plan to end the king's cruel cycle of destruction.
Yet, in her naivety, she underestimates the depth of his power; Alaric cannot be slain, for he is bound to the very dark entity that created him.
What fate awaits Elara when she finally encounters the being of nightmares? In this captivating tale, love battles despair, weaving a rich narrative of forbidden passion, sacrifice, and the relentless struggle to defy the darkness that binds them both.
Jessamine was content in her busy, no nonsense life, when suddenly she finds herself kidnapped by the hottest son of a bitch she's ever seen. She feels an unexplainable pull to him, but makes sure to fight the attraction - he did kidnap her after all. But how long can she fight him for, when it was written when she was born that she is his, and he is hers?
Alaric has been waiting for his mate for years, and now that he has found her, he is not letting her go. He has ruled as alpha alone for a number of years, and craves his Luna. Unfortunately he thought it would be a good idea to kidnap her so that she couldn't run from him, meaning that she now doesn't want anything to do with him. So what does he do? Sneakily invite her non-the-wiser-friends to his territory as leverage to make her fall for him. Alaric is in for a wild ride when he realises that in order to gain Jessamine's trust he has to talk about the one thing he is hates and is definitely not in touch with: feelings and emotions.
Will Jessamine ever forgive Alaric for ripping her from her life, and will Alaric ever melt his cold, icy exterior for his mate?
Read this romantic, drama-filled, mature story to find out.
*If you like the werewolf genre please check out my other book 'A Lycan Fit For A Luna'!*
*Completed and edited but may still have some mistakes.*