A stranger steps in to save her when a masked man gets too aggressive during the bar’s annual Halloween celebration. Zoe thanks the hot goth guy and gives him free drinks for the rest of the night. When he leaves without asking for her number, she assumes she’ll never see him again. At the end of the night, she notices someone is following her while she walks home. Accosted and dragged into an alley, she realizes it’s the same man who harassed her earlier. She’s surprised when the hot goth guy saves her again; she’s even more surprised to discover he’s a vampire.
When she invites Isaac back to her apartment, they spend the remaining hours until sunlight having the best sex of her life. In the last moments of their time together, he tells her he can never see her again. The following night he finds her at a bar, where she’s trying desperately to forget about him. She grows frustrated with his inability to stay away from her contradicting his dictums that they can’t keep seeing each other.
At her boss’ request, she visits a bar across town and swears she sees Isaac in the crowd. But the friendly, handsome man who keeps buying her drinks has her attention, even more so when she feels the scrape of his fangs against her neck. Maybe he can be the one that finally gets Isaac out from under her skin.
Tropes: damsel in distress twice in the same night, can’t stay away, one-night stand, protector, make up your mind, is it really an age gap?, bloodplay, biting, possessive behavior
Available: Kindle – Kindle Unlimited
Content Warnings
Sexual Harassment – The FMC is a bartender and she’s sexually harassed multiple times during her shift at the beginning of the book by drunk patrons.
Attempted Sexual Assault – The FMC, while walking home from her shift, feels like she’s being followed. The man following her, a bar patron upset she declined his advances and was thrown out of the bar, steers her into an alley. He holds her at knifepoint and demands she suck his cock. When she argues, he threatens to assault her and even offers to share her with the MMC when he shows up.
Death – The MMC is a vampire and he details losing his life to a vampire, killing said vampire, and losing his family (including children) to illness. He murders the villain from the beginning of the story to protect the FMC. All of the deaths happen off-page and, aside from the villain, are historical.
History of Murder – The MMC talks about how he slaughtered his way through the European countryside right after he was turned and lost his family. He expresses regret.
Biting/Blood Drinking – The MMC is a vampire who has an aphrodisiacal bite and frequently bites the FMC during their physical times. He heals her soon after each bite. He drinks blood as he is a vampire.
Alcohol Consumption – A good portion of the story takes place in bars where both of the MCs consume alcohol.
Possessive Behavior – The MMC feels that he can’t be with the FMC because of what he is. But he stalks and protects her because he feels she is his. He uses possessive words at the end as they finally establish a relationship.
Stalking/Murdering for Protection – The MMC follows the FMC to watch over her and then kills a man for the threat he poses to the FMC.
Exhibitionism/Public Play – While checking out a bar for her boss, the FMC lets one of the other patrons finger her in front of the other patrons in an alcove similar to what others are also using for public play
Threats of Death – The MMC threatens another vampire for trying to stake a claim on the FMC.
Explicit Sex
Shonna Preston 