The Long View

Sheriff of Night, Book Seven

For thirteen years, vampire sheriff Eve Ashford has built an impossible life with Maya and Jordan—a polyamorous family that defies every rule of her kind. They've weathered political threats, faction wars, and the daily miracle of loving across the divide between immortal and mortal.
But time is the one enemy Eve cannot defeat.
When Maya's beloved uncle Marcus receives a terminal diagnosis, their carefully constructed world begins to crack. Their daughter Elena, now eight years old, is asking questions none of them know how to answer. What happens when people die? Why won't Mama Eve get old like everyone else? Will she be alone forever after we're gone?
Then the vampire Council demands Eve's presence for negotiations that could prevent a continental war—forcing her to choose between her duty to thousands and her presence at the bedside of a dying man.
The choice she makes will test everything they've built.
The Long View is a story about the courage it takes to love people you know you'll lose. About watching gray appear in the hair of the people you'd die for. About teaching a child that mortality isn't a flaw—it's what makes every moment precious.
And about a family learning that being together isn't the same as being present, and that some absences leave wounds that take years to heal.

This is Book 7 of The Sheriff of Night series. It contains explicit sexual content (polyamorous relationship, MFF), themes of death and grief, and should be read after Books 1-6.

Content notes: On-page death of a secondary character, grief, terminal illness, themes of mortality and aging