The Coffin of Nicolae

In a ghost town where cornfields outnumber people, Lieutenant Gianna Park arrests the new arrival, Nicolae Badea, for biting her on their first date.

When bodies begin to surface-young men found mummified, bitten, and strangled-Gianna suspects the man she once handcuffed. Yet the evidence refuses to align. The wounds are wrong. The hunger is too controlled.

Eighteen years ago, a boy was killed and forgotten. Now the dead are returning the same way.

As Gianna uncovers a hidden world of vampires who police their own kind, she learns that monsters are not defined by blood, but by what they choose to feed on.

Nicolae Badea insists it was never desire that restrained him. It was faith. He survives by restraint, faith, and silence. The killer survives by power. Only one of them hunts humans.

The Coffin of Nicolae is a gothic crime novel about addiction, faith, romance, and the violence we excuse when it wears a human face. It asks what justice means when the law has no language for the truth.

And what waits inside Nicolae's coffin.

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Content Warning: This novel includes strong, explicit language and depictions of violence, sexual scenes that some readers may find offensive.