The Ancients' Bargain

Sirens are known for their beauty and grace. Everything from their lithe figures to their perfectly symmetrical faces to the cadence of their voices is designed to charm. Pleasure of the flesh is how they sustain themselves. So, of course, Detective Carver would be the one siren lucky enough to hate sex.

Ever since his husband died, Carver has...

Her love is lethal. That's an immutable truth Saoirse's had to contend with since she nearly killed the love of her life eighty years ago.

Sirens have a biological imperative to empathically bond with their partner. It's supposed to be a soft melding of nervous systems, intertwining two people as one, but people like Saoirse, a khavira, have a...

Most pureblood vampires go blind early in their life, and Minsu is no exception. That hasn't stopped him from living an accomplished life as a diplomat.

Following the end of the war between the demonic Pure Clans and vampiric Khrang Bi, Minsu is chosen to participate in a political marriage with Clan Deng. He's expecting a savage and bigoted...

Everyone fears Anh. Quiet falls when she enters a room. Eyes lower in her presence. Even her name is spoken with dread. She is the most severe case of demonic bloodlust in the world, and her reputation was rightly earned in blood and pain.

But Eji doesn't treat her like everyone else. He bullies her into eating regularly, makes sure she takes...

Love is a curse. Fumi never thought she'd take that phrase literally, but here she is anyway.

Two years ago, she was cursed to have love itself be the venom coursing through her. The more she's loved, the faster she'll die. So she burned every bridge she had, abandoned her spouse and their children, which let her squeeze a couple more years of...

She's the only Ancient who never chose to be someone. Mother of the Gods. She Who Brings the End of All Things.

The Professor has lived for millennia, with many names and many faces. Time moves differently for her who experiences past and present synchronously. The two constants in her temporally disjointed existence are her spouses, Damian and...