Bound in Blood

"Don't make a sound—they can smell your pulse," the bloody stranger snarled, pinning me against the cold stockroom wall seconds before his fangs sank into my throat. I woke up with a burning crimson crest carved into my skin, branded as the exclusive blood source to a rogue vampire with a lethal bounty on his head. I have thirty days to break this fatal bond before the mark devours my free will and turns me into a mindless puppet. But Karl is no ordinary runaway—he is Caleb Ashe, a dethroned blood prince betrayed and hunted by his ruthless brother. Every time he feeds, his tortured memories bleed into my mind, exposing the dark conspiracy threatening the entire city. Hunters want my head. The vampire council wants him chained. To survive, I must make an impossible choice: sever the bond and let him die, or bleed for the monster who holds my soul.