Veins of Power

The imperial court has always hidden monsters behind silk and gold, where vampires rule from the shadows beneath centuries of etiquette, secrecy, and carefully restrained hunger. Jinshi, heir to the ancient Ka clan, has spent his life mastering control, but everything begins to unravel when Maomao pricks her finger on a rose and a single drop of her blood brings an entire room of predators to the edge of frenzy. Because Maomao carries something thought extinct: the blood of the La clan. As strange illnesses spread through the Rear Palace and old horrors begin to resurface, Jinshi finds himself caught between duty, obsession, and a hunger that may destroy them both, because in a world where blood is power, love may be the most dangerous hunger of all.