Blood Longing

A M/M Vampire Romance

By: Marian Black

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

When Jason Callahan photographs the ruins of New Haven, he captures what the city wants to forget—crumbling cathedrals, abandoned buildings, and the beautiful decay that marks time's passage. Living alone and haunted by past betrayals, he's built a life documenting dead things that can't disappoint him.

Then Lucien St. Clair walks into his world.

Elegant, enigmatic, and dangerously compelling, Lucien sees through Jason's carefully constructed walls with eight centuries of practice reading human nature. As Jason finds himself drawn into Lucien's orbit—and the shadowy vampire society that controls New Haven from the darkness—he discovers that some ruins are worth rebuilding, and some risks are worth taking.

But when their relationship threatens the delicate balance of power among the vampire elite, Jason and Lucien must navigate ancient feuds, political machinations, and a conspiracy that's left bodies in its wake for decades. With unlikely allies including a fearless journalist, a jaded private investigator, and vampires who've grown tired of the old ways, they'll challenge a corrupt Council that's ruled through blood and fear since before America was born.

In a city where monsters wear expensive suits and love comes with a body count, Jason must decide: Is a finite lifetime with an immortal worth risking everything? And can Lucien—who's spent centuries learning to leave before the leaving hurts—finally choose to stay?

A gothic romance about the architecture of love and loss, the ruins we make of ourselves, and the dangerous hope that someone might see us clearly and choose to stay anyway.