The Flower and the Blade
New Orleans, 1792. Some hungers are older than the city itself.
Aurore de Malcombe has buried both parents, inherited a sugar plantation, and learned to survive in a city that expects a twenty-year-old orphan to fail. She has her mother's voodoo, her father's sense of justice, and a gift no one can explain: no animal has ever harmed her.
Then she wakes on the floor of a stranger's house with no memory of the night before, and her world begins to slip.
Falco de Louvi re has been beautiful, charming and empty for two hundred years. Aurore is the first person in two centuries who makes him feel anything at all. She sees straight through the performance to the man beneath: the former serf, the killer who swore never to kill again.
The pull between them is not a choice. It is gravity. It has a name older than either of them. And it has already cost Aurore her human life.
Now she must fight the hunger that took everything from her, hold on to the woman she was, and face the hunters whose families have watched the city for three generations, waiting for the letter that finally came. Beside her stand the two immortals who love her, each in his own way: the man whose blood chose hers, and the ancient, wounded maker who taught him everything except how to love.
They will learn what the hunters learn too late. The most dangerous vampire is the one who kept her soul.
A lush gothic romance of blood, magic and devotion for readers of A Dowry of Blood and Interview with the Vampire who want their vampires wounded, their heroines unbroken, and their found families eternal.
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