The Taste of Eternity

By CK Reeve

The Taste of Eternity

Dark vampire horror by CK Reeve

Deep in a mountain's eternal void, ancient wards shatter in an earthquake's fury, freeing Urukia-a vampire entombed for a millennium. Once a healer cursed by betrayal and plague, she awakens ravenous, her veins burning for vengeance against the zealots who sealed her fate. Emerging into a modern world of neon cities and shadowed alleys, Urukia hunts with primal grace, her bites blending savage thirst with intimate ecstasy, turning the lost into her brood: Lirien the artist, a musician silenced forever, and others forged in blood's crimson rite.

But freedom's metallic tang sours as her progeny fractures-power-drunk betrayals scatter them into the night, leaving Urukia isolated amid Eldridge Bay's misty harbors. Enter Kael, a scarred vampire hunter from the zealous Order, sworn to silver stakes and holy flames. Their rain-slicked clash ignites electric tension: her abyssal gaze pierces his armored faith, stirring forbidden pulses where revulsion twists into erotic doubt. Forbidden tomes reveal Urukia's human past-Elara, a woman whose gentle hands mended plagues only to be damned by lovers' poison-humanizing the monster in his fracturing soul.

As Urukia's brood splinters in feral skirmishes, the Order closes its net with Mira's unyielding litanies and silver wards. Clashes erupt in warehouses and underpasses-claws rake flesh in erotic violence, bodies entwine in dominance's dance, venom weaving surrender from agony. Alliances fracture, doubts whisper profane intimacies, and vengeance simmers in spilled ichor. In a siege of crimson reckonings, eclipses of souls, and eternal embers, Urukia confronts her shadowed lineage, while Kael teeters on zeal's edge, her veiled heart pulling him toward the abyss.

Atmospheric horror blending gothic sensuality with visceral hunts, The Taste of Eternity explores monstrosity's fragile line-faith vs. frailty, isolation's raw ache, and blood's intoxicating bond. With Nietzsche's warning as epigraph, CK Reeve (photographer, musician) crafts a tale where hunters risk becoming the prey, and eternity tastes of both ruin and rapture. Perfect for fans of Anne Rice and Deborah Harkness. 370 pages of shadowed desire and unrelenting night

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GPSHX5HW
• ISBN13: 9798349312670
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Ck Reeve
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"