Inked & Bloodbound

“If I have to choose…I’ll take the kind of monster all the others fear.”

Nurse Lily has been hearing voices for months. Shadows in empty hospital corridors. Whispers that shouldn’t exist. She’s had every test, consulted every specialist. Nothing explains it. Until she walks into a tattoo parlor on the anniversary of her mother’s death and hears the artist’s thoughts in her head. Cassini tells her what doctors couldn’t—she’s a medium, one of the rarest supernatural beings in existence. In Austin’s vampire underworld, that either makes her a powerful weapon to be wielded, or a dangerous threat to be eliminated. The...

“If I have to choose…I’ll take the kind of monster all the others fear.”

Nurse Lily has been hearing voices for months. Shadows in empty hospital corridors. Whispers that shouldn’t exist. She’s had every test, consulted every specialist. Nothing explains it. Until she walks into a tattoo parlor on the anniversary of her mother’s death and hears the artist’s thoughts in her head. Cassini tells her what doctors couldn’t—she’s a medium, one of the rarest supernatural beings in existence. In Austin’s vampire underworld, that either makes her a powerful weapon to be wielded, or a dangerous threat to be eliminated. The brooding tattoo artist is a vampire in exile, hiding his true identity and bound by a blood oath that weakens him with every sunrise. With his enemies closing in and a missing girl’s life on the line, Lily’s rare power could be his salvation…or her destruction. Forced into an uneasy alliance, they must navigate the treacherous line between predator and prey, where every touch ignites desire and every secret threatens betrayal. But the closer they become, the more Cassini fears the truth: he may not be able to protect her from the secrets hunting them both. Or from himself…