The Blood Claim
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Blood is currency in the vampire court - and mercy is a weakness few survive.
When Lina is dragged before the ruthless, newly crowned vampire prince Corvis, she expects what every noble taken by the court expects: fangs, feeding, and death. Humans are prey in this kingdom of immortals since they no longer hide in the shadows, little more than vessels to be drained and discarded once their blood runs dry.
But Corvis does something no vampire prince should.
He lets her live.
Instead, he keeps her.
Forced to remain at the prince's side, Lina becomes his personal source of blood - a living prisoner within the palace walls, fed well enough to survive and taken whenever the prince's hunger demands it. To the vampire court, the meaning is obvious. Humans exist to be fed upon. The prince has simply chosen to keep his prey close.
Corvis himself is no gentler threat. Ruthless, feared, and utterly merciless to those who challenge him, the vampire prince rules through the power and violence he once was a victim to himself. Yet the longer Lina remains at his side, the clearer it becomes that the prince who feeds from her does not entirely understand the fragile humanity he has claimed.
And in a palace where loyalty is bought in blood and betrayal lurks behind every velvet smile, Lina may discover a dangerous truth:
Being spared by the most powerful monster in the kingdom might be far more perilous than being killed by him.
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