Thrones of Moon and Blood

Caine Stormhold, heir to the Stormhold Pack, has been raised to hate the vampire covens that border his ancestral lands. On the night of his mate-bonding ritual, the Moon reveals his fated other half in the form of Valerius Nocturne — an ancient vampire noble with silver eyes and a smile like a crypt's promise. Defying every instinct, Caine publicly rejects the bond, shattering the fragile truce between their species. But when elders from both sides are murdered with symbols of both clans, Caine and Valerius are forced into an uneasy alliance to unmask the true architect. Forced proximity in mist-choked catacombs and moonlit forests strips away their armor: Caine wrestles with a bond that refuses to be severed, while Valerius battles the foreign ache of a heart learning to beat again. They uncover a conspiracy woven by radical factions from both species who need this war to purge the other race. Racing against a prophecy that one of them must die to seal the peace, Caine and Valerius must choose between the thrones they were born to and the traitorous, impossible love that could unite their clans or reduce them to ashes.