Missing girls in New Orleans have one fate: theyre never found alive. Im about to join their ranks. Unless the vampire enforcer tracking me can shatter every rule—and every precedent.

My name is Joy, and Ive always lived up to it—smiling through problems, finding silver linings, believing tomorrow will be better. But over a month ago, my optimism met its match when I was kidnapped while searching for my missing best friend.

Now Im a prisoner of New Orleans most dangerous crime lord, thrust into a world I never knew existed. Vampires are real. Vampire mafia? Also real. And something is stirring...

Missing girls in New Orleans have one fate: theyre never found alive. Im about to join their ranks. Unless the vampire enforcer tracking me can shatter every rule—and every precedent.

My name is Joy, and Ive always lived up to it—smiling through problems, finding silver linings, believing tomorrow will be better. But over a month ago, my optimism met its match when I was kidnapped while searching for my missing best friend.

Now Im a prisoner of New Orleans most dangerous crime lord, thrust into a world I never knew existed. Vampires are real. Vampire mafia? Also real. And something is stirring inside me—a power I cant explain thats the only reason Im still alive.

They say hes coming for me. Enzo. The vampire mafias most feared enforcer. Cold. Ruthless. Merciless. The man leaves a trail of bodies wherever he goes. The whispers about him terrify even my captors.

But when his dark eyes find mine in the chaos of my prison, I see something impossible. Recognition. Possession. As if I belong to him. As if Ive always belonged to him.

I dont know this vampire. Dont trust him. And I absolutely refuse to accept his ridiculous claim that Im his fated mate—whatever that means. I didnt even believe vampires existed, and now this terrifying man with perpetually furrowed brows thinks he owns me? Ive spent weeks fighting my captors at every turn—Im not about to stop now.

But when his cold eyes find mine, something deep inside me responds. No matter how loudly I tell myself this brooding, dangerous creature is my enemy, my stubborn heart wont listen. And as my mysterious powers grow stronger, Im running out of options for allies in a world I never knew was real.

The human mafia wont let me go without bloodshed. And as ancient power awakens within me, I find myself caught between two worlds with ties to both.

My captor thinks Im leverage. My would-be savior thinks Im his. But neither of them knows what Im becoming—or how my relentless optimism and newfound power might be the most dangerous weapon of all.