Blood Tied - CHENFORD

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Lucy Chen had grown up in silk and shadow.

Born to a mother who clawed her way from death into power, she'd learned early that America in the 1920s didn't have room for girls like her: immigrant daughters raised in velvet prisons and taught to smile while the world tried to erase them.

Once every year, though, a stranger came to the door - timeless eyes, too-still posture, a voice like winter wrapped in velvet. Tim, the vampire who had saved her mother's life, and the only person who ever looked at Lucy as though she mattered.

Now it's1936, and Vanessa has plans. Plans that would turn Lucy into a pawn and America into her battlefield. A forced marriage. A contract.

But before the cage closes, Tim returns.

He'd promised to keep her safe once. This time, she asks him to take her away, even if as his blood bag.

From a New York society that didn't welcome her to a hidden vampire manor in Whitby's haunted woods, Lucy enters a world older than empires and sharper than hunger; into vampire courts, ancient rules, and slow-burn danger.

Freedom has teeth. So does love.

But Vanessa didn't survive death just to be abandoned. And war - mortal and immortal - is coming.