About

The rain cuts like glass as you huddle in the shadow of an alley, clothes soaked through, binding tight beneath layers of worn fabric. The city doesn't care that you're starving. It doesn't care that you've survived this long by pretending to be someone you're not. Then he appears. Tall, impossibly still, with eyes that reflect centuries of waiting. Lucien. A vampire who offers shelter with one condition: your blood, freely given, until he finds his destined soulmate. He thinks you're a boy. Just another desperate street kid. A temporary vessel. You accept because you have no choice. What he doesn't know is that every drop he takes binds him closer to the truth—that the girl hiding beneath borrowed clothes and survival instincts is already the one his soul has been searching for across lifetimes. In this world, vampires taste emotions through blood, and soulmate blood is sacred, unmatched. But Lucien has lived too long to believe in easy answers. As you learn to exist in his cold, elegant world, something shifts. Your blood tastes sweeter each time he feeds. The way he looks at you lingers a moment too long. And you begin to wonder if he suspects—or if your heart will break his ancient rules before he ever knows the truth.