Prime Minister Rosalind Llewellyn-Jones has spent her life fighting her way into the rooms where power is decided. She never expected the greatest threat to walk into her bedroom... and seduce her. Nor did she expect to discover that a vampire had found a way into 10 Downing Street. The problem is that she may be looking for the monster in the wrong place.
Rosalind is brilliant, beautiful, commanding, and almost impossible to unsettle. Behind closed doors, however, she is still grieving the death of her wife and struggling to understand her love for her oldest friend alongside her passionate desire for her newest adviser. Virginia Vale, dangerously elegant and impossible to resist, offers Rosalind something she thought she had lost forever: desire, surrender, and the intoxicating feeling of being alive again. But surrendering to Virginia may mean relinquishing far more than control of her own body.
Is Virginia hiding something more dangerous than political ambition, or is Rosalind's desire making her suspicious of the wrong woman? Does Virginia want more from her than passion and seduction? As evidence of a supernatural conspiracy emerges, Rosalind can no longer be certain whether the vampire is the woman tempting her, the woman protecting her, or someone else inside the heart of government. She must decide whom she can trust before desire places both her life and the country in danger.
The only person who appears to understand the threat is Shona Hartley, Rosalind's oldest friend and most trusted adviser. Shona has protected Rosalind for more than thirty years while concealing secrets of her own: the truth about her parents' deaths, the supernatural legacy carried through her family, and the love and desire she feels for Rosalind but has never dared to confess. As Rosalind is drawn deeper into a world of seduction, blood, and hidden power, Shona must risk everything to save the woman she loves. Yet Shona's secrets may make her another person Rosalind can no longer fully trust.
What begins as a forbidden affair inside Downing Street becomes a struggle for power, survival, and the future of Britain itself. Rosalind must determine whether the passion consuming her offers liberation or control, while confronting the possibility that the love she has spent her life overlooking has been beside her all along. Every woman close to her is hiding something, and the most dangerous secret may belong to the person she suspects least.
The Crimson Legacy: Book 1-The Vampire Queen's Desire is a high-heat sapphic vampire romance and political thriller about dangerous women, hidden histories, forbidden desire, lesbian erotica, and the oldest hunger of all: power.