To Spare the Monster

She was trained to kill vampires. He is the one monster she cannot bring herself to stake. Seraphina Holt is the Order's most decorated executioner, an elite vampire hunter who never misses a kill. Raised by the Law of the Stake and Shadow, she knows mercy is how monsters win. Her newest target should be simple. Henrik Valeur is an ancient vampire exile, a creature wrapped in blood-soaked legend and accused of slaughtering hunter patrols in the frozen canals of Veyrmoor. Seraphina expects fangs, lies, and a fight to the death. Instead, he saves her life. When the Order turns its weapons on Seraphina, the hunter becomes the hunted, and her only chance of survival is the very monster she was sent to destroy. Henrik is lethal, controlled, and far too protective for a creature without a soul. Worse, he knows secrets about her bloodline that the Order buried centuries ago. As they flee through fog-choked streets, flooded crypts, vampire courts, and the shadowed bones of a city built on old blood magic, Seraphina's cursed blood begins to awaken. A stolen reliquary holds the truth of her lineage, the key to a holy war, and the proof that hunters and vampires were never the enemies they were taught to be. Every secret draws her closer to Henrik. Every touch becomes a betrayal. Every pulse of her forbidden desire threatens to turn her from the Order's perfect weapon into its greatest heresy. To save Veyrmoor from a city-wide purge, Seraphina must decide what terrifies her more: the vampire she was born to kill, or the truth that he may be the only one worth trusting. The hunt is over. The heresy has just begun.