The Kiss Of The Last Vampire
He was the king the world buried. She is the girl who was never meant to find him.
Adelina Morrow has spent her whole life combing the catacombs of dead empires for coin, guided by the one man who ever kept her safe, the relic-hunter Cassian Thorne. She trusts nothing she cannot count, sell, or outrun. Then, in a tomb that should not exist, the silver mark she has carried on her palm since before she can remember blazes to life, and a sealed sarcophagus opens for her alone.
Inside lies Lucian Drake, the last king of the vampires, entombed for five hundred years by an Order that burned a continent to end his kind. He is ancient, elegant, dry-witted, and exactly as dangerous as the legends promised. And with a single touch, Adelina has bound her blood to his. She can feel him in the dark. She can feel his hunger. And with every day that passes, she can feel less of where she ends and he begins.
The world has not forgotten him. Seraphine Noir, the vampire queen who once shared his bed and coveted his throne, is crossing the country with a deadline and a smile that promises ruin. Isolde and Garrick, the last loyal members of House Drake's hidden court, offer shelter and secrets in equal measure, and each secret has a price. And beneath the mountains, something far older than any king is beginning to stir, drawn by the same prophecy that placed Adelina's hand on that stone.
Hunting them all is Inquisitor Mortimer Vane of the Order of Light, a man who has spent thirty years waiting for the monsters to return and who believes, with a conviction that has never once cost him sleep, that every one of them must burn. He is patient. He is brilliant. And he knows the girl is the key.
Lucian swears he will not use her. Adelina swears she will not trust him. But the bond does not care what either of them swears, and the closer they are forced together, the harder it becomes to say which of them is the captive.
Some prisons are made of stone. Some are made of blood. And some are made of the thing you were too afraid to want. In a war between light and dark, the only question that matters is what you are willing to become to love someone the world says should never exist.
If you love: vampire kings and the girls who wake them, a bond that cannot be broken, slow-burn forbidden romance, and ancient prophecies with a price - this is your next read.
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