Eloisebrooklyn
"He was ice, staggering wealth, and the agonizing devotion of a perfect husband. She was fire, crushing poverty, and a thirty-five dollar debt she couldn't afford to pay. They had every reason to despise one another. Then the murders started." Edward Cullen, the town's obscenely wealthy, aristocratic Mayor, guards a dark secret: he is a vampire, desperately trying to protect his fragile, impossibly pregnant human wife, Bella. When Edward discovers that a shadowy cult known only as the "Architects" has marked Bella as their ultimate prize, he is forced to bypass the corrupt local authorities and hunt the killers himself.
To navigate the dangerous, sprawling underbelly of the town, Edward strikes a desperate bargain with Leah Clearwater. Embittered, newly awakened as a werewolf, and ostracized by her own tribe, Leah is drowning in debt. In exchange for her freedom, she agrees to act as his guide and tracker.
"The Alienist meets Mexican Gothic in the Twilight universe-a literary horror novel about a serial killer who dissects pregnant women, a mayor who is secretly a vampire, and a working-class indigenous woman who is slowly turning into a wolf without knowing it."