Blood Kisses

“You act like you hate me and I don’t know why. All I did was love you. It wasn’t a crime.”

Ten years ago, the vampire Severin fell in love with the mortal Nikolaus in Vienna and abandoned him, rather than take his life.

He and his friend, Istvan, are invited to the vampire king Emil’s castle where he finds out that Nikolaus now belongs to Emil. Jealousy eats Severin alive. The twin lusts of blood and sex are intertwined for all vampires, ruling their lives. The only way to possess Nikolaus now seems to be to accept an invitation to share Emil’s pet for one night. But Emil is a despot, ruling all vampires with an iron fist. There is long, painful history between Severin and his maker, and a strange kind of relationship between the placid Istvan and the cruel Emil.

Storm clouds are gathering on the horizon, threatening all their lives. Severin can run, but if he takes Nikolaus with him, Emil will hunt them down and kill them. What’s a vampire in love supposed to do?