Blood and Ruin: The Queen's Obssession

In the sleepless heart of modern New York, where glass skyscrapers glimmer like altars to human ambition, something ancient stirs beneath the surface.

They walk among mortals-creatures of hunger wearing faces of civility. Vampires dine beside the living, whispering laughter over wine, their elegance masking centuries of blood and silence.

And at the center of this quiet masquerade stands Jennie, a soft-spoken editor in a Manhattan publishing firm. No one suspects the truth-that she is Ruby Jane, Queen of Vampires, heir to a lineage that carved history in crimson. She abandoned her throne in Europe, left her kin restless and vengeful, for one reason only: a mortal woman named Lalisa Manoban.

Lisa is light. Warmth. Everything Ruby's kind has forgotten how to touch.

For two years, Ruby has hidden in plain sight, living beneath fluorescent lights and mortal chatter, her hunger stitched behind a smile. Every laugh, every careless glance from Lisa unravels her further. Anyone who drifts too close to Lisa vanishes-quietly, efficiently, as if erased by the night itself.

But Ruby is not the only thing stalking her.
There are shadows that do not carry the scent of blood. Older. Colder. Watching.

When an unseen predator begins haunting the same alleys, Ruby's obsession twists into wariness. The city trembles under disappearances dressed as coincidence, and the fragile veil between the human and the monstrous begins to thin.

Soon, the Queen who came to worship will have to choose: concealment or carnage.

And Lalisa Manoban-the woman she cannot stop watching- may not be the prey she believes she is.