Blood and Seduction

New Orleans, 1926-a city of jazz, secrets, and shadows where monsters walk among the living.

Eighteen-year-old Jules never meant to wander into the dark. But after a night on Bourbon Street ends in blood and silence, she wakes reborn as a vampire-marked as a violation of ancient law. With her family still alive, the city's vampire covenant orders her execution.

Only one vampire intervenes.

Lucian-powerful, feared, and over a century old-claims responsibility for her life. Coldly disciplined and bound by tradition, he becomes Jules's reluctant protector, confining her to his mansion and enforcing rules she refuses to obey. Jules is fiery, reckless, and furious at the chains wrapped around her immortality. Lucian sees her defiance as a threat. She sees his control as a prison.

Caught between hunger and survival, Jules is drawn into the seductive underground of New Orleans's younger vampires-midnight dances, illegal feedings, and dangerous freedom. There she meets Silas: charming, volatile, and openly defiant of the covenant's authority. Silas whispers of power, of revolution, of a world where vampires no longer bow to elders who fear change. He tells Jules what Lucian never will-that her fire makes her dangerous... and destined for more.

As vampire hunters close in on the city and coven politics turn deadly, Jules is forced to choose between order and chaos, protection and freedom. But Silas's plans threaten to ignite a massacre that could expose them all-and Lucian may be the only one willing to burn the world to keep her alive.

In a city built on sin and secrecy, love becomes the most dangerous rebellion of all.l