He tried to compel her into silence. She said: that's an interesting approach. He has not recovered.
She found a story that could unravel everything.
Delia Cross has been an investigative journalist for eleven years. She is very good at finding things — which is why, when a suspicious financial filing crosses her desk, she spends three weeks following the thread to a building in the City called, it turns out, Dracul House.
The man who meets her at the thirty-second floor is Ravens Dracul: the charmer of the five Dracul brothers, the one who has been running an empire's finances for three centuries, the one with the specific and refined ability to make people forget what they've seen.
He tries it on her.
She looks at him and says: that's an interesting approach.
Ravens Dracul has not encountered immunity in three hundred years of very effectively managing people. He has two options: deploy a different tool, or stop performing and have a real conversation. He chooses the real conversation. He is not entirely sure why. He suspects it is because she is the most interesting person he has encountered since the early nineteenth century, and he has been waiting — without knowing he was waiting — for someone who could see through everything he'd built.
What follows is a sequencing agreement, six months of embedded access, and the most significant investigative journalism project of Delia's career — a book that will document three centuries of vampire empire, Covenant corruption, and a four-hundred-year-old observer that has been building an alternative world because the one that exists was wrong from the start.
And, between the library floor and the third-floor room and the forty-eight-minute documentation and the harpsichord played for the first time in two hundred years: the specific, patient, entirely undeniable thing that happens when two people who are both very good at finding things start finding each other.
She has a policy. He has patience. The story is going to take six months. The rest is going to take considerably longer.
Blood Price is a full-length dark paranormal romance with a guaranteed HEA, explicit content, and a heroine who has an actual policy about sources — and who adjusts it, very deliberately, at exactly the right moment.
Genre: Romance
She found a story that could unravel everything.
Delia Cross has been an investigative journalist for eleven years. She is very good at finding things — which is why, when a suspicious financial filing crosses her desk, she spends three weeks following the thread to a building in the City called, it turns out, Dracul House.
The man who meets her at the thirty-second floor is Ravens Dracul: the charmer of the five Dracul brothers, the one who has been running an empire's finances for three centuries, the one with the specific and refined ability to make people forget what they've seen.
He tries it on her.
She looks at him and says: that's an interesting approach.
Ravens Dracul has not encountered immunity in three hundred years of very effectively managing people. He has two options: deploy a different tool, or stop performing and have a real conversation. He chooses the real conversation. He is not entirely sure why. He suspects it is because she is the most interesting person he has encountered since the early nineteenth century, and he has been waiting — without knowing he was waiting — for someone who could see through everything he'd built.
What follows is a sequencing agreement, six months of embedded access, and the most significant investigative journalism project of Delia's career — a book that will document three centuries of vampire empire, Covenant corruption, and a four-hundred-year-old observer that has been building an alternative world because the one that exists was wrong from the start.
And, between the library floor and the third-floor room and the forty-eight-minute documentation and the harpsichord played for the first time in two hundred years: the specific, patient, entirely undeniable thing that happens when two people who are both very good at finding things start finding each other.
She has a policy. He has patience. The story is going to take six months. The rest is going to take considerably longer.
Blood Price is a full-length dark paranormal romance with a guaranteed HEA, explicit content, and a heroine who has an actual policy about sources — and who adjusts it, very deliberately, at exactly the right moment.
Genre: Romance
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