Awakening His Vampire Mate
(2025)(The sixth book in the Blood Bonded Mates series)
A novel by Jay Castle
Cole
For eight hundred years, I''ve walked this world without feeling even a shred of human emotion. I hunt murderers with a song in my heart, but I’m no hero, anti or otherwise. I enjoy besting other predators, and my own pleasure has always been the only thing that matters. My world is clean, simple, and perfect.
Then Eli stumbles into my life, and everything changes. The moment he looks at me with those dark, haunted eyes and calls me by a name I haven’t used in centuries, I feel something I thought lost to me forever: the ability to care for someone who isn’t me.
Suddenly, my existence isn’t about pleasure anymore. I would burn it all down for him without even a moment’s hesitation. But Eli has built his life around saving others. If he ever learns what I’ve done or who I really am, he’ll never forgive me.
He can never know the truth.
Eli
I’ve seen Nicolas in my dreams for as long as I can remember. I always wake up gasping, drowning in feelings of heartbreak I can’t explain. But that’s sheer madness. I should be focused on the grueling hours I’m putting in at the ER. On my unstable ex, whose threats are getting worse. On my sister, whose life is falling apart right in front of me. Or maybe even on the fact that every man I’ve ever given my heart to has shattered it. Those things matter. The dreams don’t.
Until the night I meet Nicolas. Then everything I thought I knew starts to unravel. Because he’s real. And he’s not human. I know I should run. But how can I leave the one person who’s always been mine, even before we’ve ever met? Still, I know he’s hiding something from me. Something far worse than his lack of heartbeat.
And I have to know what it is. Even if it destroys everything.
Awakening His Vampire Mate is the final book in the Blood Bonded Mates series. This 85,000-word spicy M/M paranormal romance features a skeptical human doctor coming face-to-face with the supernatural, dreams that might not just be dreams, a snarky inhuman vampire rediscovering his emotions through his fated mate, and a disgruntled detective stuck playing reluctant buddy cop to an immortal serial killer who hunts other killers. There will be at least one reunion centuries in the making, cameos from every couple in the previous books, and a guaranteed HEA (possibly even for some long-running side characters). You can also expect hurt/comfort, found family, funny moments, slow-burn spice, plenty of snark, and everyone getting exactly what they richly deserve.
Content warnings: As an open-door gay vampire romance, this book contains explicit sexual scenes between two consenting adult men. Additional warnings include on-page violence (never between partners), stalking, mentions of off-page abuse occurring in the past, strong language, depictions of alcoholism, smoking, death, stalking, and consensual blood-drinking. All major characters in this series are part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Genre: Fantasy
For eight hundred years, I''ve walked this world without feeling even a shred of human emotion. I hunt murderers with a song in my heart, but I’m no hero, anti or otherwise. I enjoy besting other predators, and my own pleasure has always been the only thing that matters. My world is clean, simple, and perfect.
Then Eli stumbles into my life, and everything changes. The moment he looks at me with those dark, haunted eyes and calls me by a name I haven’t used in centuries, I feel something I thought lost to me forever: the ability to care for someone who isn’t me.
Suddenly, my existence isn’t about pleasure anymore. I would burn it all down for him without even a moment’s hesitation. But Eli has built his life around saving others. If he ever learns what I’ve done or who I really am, he’ll never forgive me.
He can never know the truth.
Eli
I’ve seen Nicolas in my dreams for as long as I can remember. I always wake up gasping, drowning in feelings of heartbreak I can’t explain. But that’s sheer madness. I should be focused on the grueling hours I’m putting in at the ER. On my unstable ex, whose threats are getting worse. On my sister, whose life is falling apart right in front of me. Or maybe even on the fact that every man I’ve ever given my heart to has shattered it. Those things matter. The dreams don’t.
Until the night I meet Nicolas. Then everything I thought I knew starts to unravel. Because he’s real. And he’s not human. I know I should run. But how can I leave the one person who’s always been mine, even before we’ve ever met? Still, I know he’s hiding something from me. Something far worse than his lack of heartbeat.
And I have to know what it is. Even if it destroys everything.
Awakening His Vampire Mate is the final book in the Blood Bonded Mates series. This 85,000-word spicy M/M paranormal romance features a skeptical human doctor coming face-to-face with the supernatural, dreams that might not just be dreams, a snarky inhuman vampire rediscovering his emotions through his fated mate, and a disgruntled detective stuck playing reluctant buddy cop to an immortal serial killer who hunts other killers. There will be at least one reunion centuries in the making, cameos from every couple in the previous books, and a guaranteed HEA (possibly even for some long-running side characters). You can also expect hurt/comfort, found family, funny moments, slow-burn spice, plenty of snark, and everyone getting exactly what they richly deserve.
Content warnings: As an open-door gay vampire romance, this book contains explicit sexual scenes between two consenting adult men. Additional warnings include on-page violence (never between partners), stalking, mentions of off-page abuse occurring in the past, strong language, depictions of alcoholism, smoking, death, stalking, and consensual blood-drinking. All major characters in this series are part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Genre: Fantasy