Blood, Bedlam, and the Original Vampyr

Beneath the music, masks, and midnight rituals of New Orleans, original vampyr Vlad Dracul guards his daughters, the Casket Girls, and holds a fragile peace among rival clans.

Bound by blood and magic, he has spent centuries marked by desire, loss, and one woman he never forgot.

Reine tends bar, makes art, and carries a soul older than it should be until a forbidden night of vampire politics, Otherworlders, and dangerous magic pulls her into his world.

Vlad recognizes in her the echo of a love long buried, and wanting her again could drag their uneasy truce into war.

She has no memory of him, yet her dreams and her paintings keep exposing a connection she cannot name.

As loyalties split and ancient rivalries catch fire, unfinished hunger spanning centuries leaves little space between protecting Reine and claiming her.