It is October in Hollow Creek, Vermont, and Theo Calloway has been running the diner across the street from The Tithe for seventy-seven years.
Theo is a hundred and eighty-six. Theo makes a sandwich at three in the morning every night. He has eaten none of them in one hundred and forty-two years.
The reason is supposed to be dead.
Vesper Marchant has been dead, on the record, since the night of the eighteenth of December 1883, when she went into the river under a burning warehouse on the New Orleans docks while Theo went in after her and did not find her. She is, in fact, very much alive. She has been doing a particular kind of professional work in seven cities under five names for the previous hundred and forty-four years, and she has just walked into Theo’s best friend’s bar at five thirty-one on a Tuesday in October on a contract she had no idea would put her in the same room as the man she has been mourning for a century and a half.
The contract is to investigate Cassius Vance, the man Theo has been the best friend of since 1882.
The man who hired her is a member of the council who has spent the last sixty years quietly turning vampires against their will.
She has eleven days to choose.
KEEP ME is Book Two of The Hollow Creek Vampires, a small-town paranormal romance series by C.J. Blackwood. Vampire heroine and vampire hero. Reunion after one hundred and forty-four years. Slow burn. Forced cohabitation in a small attic room. One sandwich, finally eaten. The bite is the question. The bite, when asked, is on the page. Standard C.J. Blackwood heat. Guaranteed HEA. The bookshop heroine, the cocky council vampire, and the diner-owning best friend from Book One all carry forward in supporting roles. Each book in the series a new couple. Read in order or as a standalone.
Tropes: second-chance romance · vampire/vampire · reunion after 144 years · slow burn · grumpy meets grumpier · forced cohabitation · the only one bed · fated by history · protective hero · morally grey heroine · small town paranormal · found family · mother-in-law backstory you will not see coming · HEA.
Genre: Historical Romance
Theo is a hundred and eighty-six. Theo makes a sandwich at three in the morning every night. He has eaten none of them in one hundred and forty-two years.
The reason is supposed to be dead.
Vesper Marchant has been dead, on the record, since the night of the eighteenth of December 1883, when she went into the river under a burning warehouse on the New Orleans docks while Theo went in after her and did not find her. She is, in fact, very much alive. She has been doing a particular kind of professional work in seven cities under five names for the previous hundred and forty-four years, and she has just walked into Theo’s best friend’s bar at five thirty-one on a Tuesday in October on a contract she had no idea would put her in the same room as the man she has been mourning for a century and a half.
The contract is to investigate Cassius Vance, the man Theo has been the best friend of since 1882.
The man who hired her is a member of the council who has spent the last sixty years quietly turning vampires against their will.
She has eleven days to choose.
KEEP ME is Book Two of The Hollow Creek Vampires, a small-town paranormal romance series by C.J. Blackwood. Vampire heroine and vampire hero. Reunion after one hundred and forty-four years. Slow burn. Forced cohabitation in a small attic room. One sandwich, finally eaten. The bite is the question. The bite, when asked, is on the page. Standard C.J. Blackwood heat. Guaranteed HEA. The bookshop heroine, the cocky council vampire, and the diner-owning best friend from Book One all carry forward in supporting roles. Each book in the series a new couple. Read in order or as a standalone.
Tropes: second-chance romance · vampire/vampire · reunion after 144 years · slow burn · grumpy meets grumpier · forced cohabitation · the only one bed · fated by history · protective hero · morally grey heroine · small town paranormal · found family · mother-in-law backstory you will not see coming · HEA.
Genre: Historical Romance
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