Blood and Starlight Series Book 1 Bloodlust and Forbidden Desires
21 parts Ongoing Blood and Starlight is a Gothic paranormal romance that follows Adrian Thorne, a thirty-two-year-old literature professor in Boston, who encounters the mysterious Elara on a rooftop one October night. Their connection is immediate and electric, but Elara harbors a dangerous secret-she is a five-hundred-year-old vampire who has spent centuries trying to maintain her humanity while surviving on the blood of those who deserve it.
As their forbidden love deepens, Adrian and Elara must navigate the treacherous waters between mortality and immortality. Their relationship faces obstacles from all sides: vampire hunters known as the Sanctum who seek to eliminate all vampires, the painful reality of Adrian's aging while Elara remains eternally young, and Elara's deep-seated fear of turning Adrian into the monster she's spent a century trying not to be.
When the Sanctum discovers Elara, she becomes the first vampire to negotiate conditional clemency-agreeing to constant surveillance and restrictions in exchange for the right to exist. Her testimony before Congress makes vampire existence public knowledge and sparks a movement for vampire-human coexistence. Meanwhile, Adrian struggles with his mortality, eventually making a dangerous decision that forces both of them to confront what they're willing to sacrifice for love.
As Adrian ages and their time together becomes more precious, a groundbreaking pilot program emerges that could change everything: sanctioned vampire transformations under medical supervision. Adrian and Elara must decide if eternal love is worth the risk of losing everything-including Adrian's humanity itself.
This is a story about the nature of humanity, the ethics of immortality, the power of choice, and the question of what we're willing to become for those we love. It explores whether true partnership can exist across the divide between mortal and immortal, and ultimately asks: is love stronger than death, time, and the very nature of what we are?