Ashes and White Roses 🌹

James had a good life. He stayed out of supernatural politics, kept his vampire-demon hybrid nature hidden, and found peace in the arms of a human man.
Then Karlheinz found out.
To the Vampire King, peace is a flaw. Independence is a defect. In a single night, Karlheinz burned James's home-and his human life-to ashes, forcing his adopted son into the viper's nest known as the Sakamaki mansion.
Surrounded by sadistic stepbrothers who are losing their minds over a fragile human girl named Yui, James couldn't care less about their twisted games or their "prey." He just wants to survive his adopted father's sick experiment. But navigating the mansion gets complicated when he crosses paths with Subaru-the youngest, angriest Sakamaki.
Subaru is a monster who destroys everything he touches. James is a survivor whose life was just reduced to cinders. Drawn together by their mutual, burning hatred for Karlheinz, they might just be exactly what the other needs-if they don't destroy each other first.