Blood Orange

Dracula Duet, Book 1

By: Karina Halle

Narrated by: Arthur Russell, Carolyn Eve

From New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle comes a dark and delicious Dracula retelling filled with secrets and lies, dangerous liaisons, and a forbidden, student-teacher, second chance love story with a twist.

Dahlia Abernathy has only known revenge. When her parents were killed at an early age by vampires, Dahlia spent the rest of her life under the thumb of the Witch's Guild being trained to kill them. Her latest mission sends her undercover to a prestigious music academy in Venice, Italy. Her goal? To kill Professor Valtu Aminoff, her teacher and the notorious vampire who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

But getting close to a dangerous vampire like Professor Aminoff is one thing. Falling for him is another. With Dahlia's appearance disguised under a glamor spell, Valtu has no idea that the woman who has become his new dark obsession is actually the reincarnation of the woman he loved and lost twice before.

And Dahlia doesn't remember that the very man she has been sent to kill is the love of her life.

Will their love come through and transcend time once again? Or are the fated lovers destined to let history repeat itself?

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Karina Halle (P)2024 Tantor

Blood sucking good time!

I really love this retelling of Dracula! This is more of a love story and how love conquers all. I believe that with all my heart and in every life. This book is beautifully written with oh so much spice and the story is Gooooooood!

cliff hanger in the worse way

I like how it ended but don't like how they completely left the main story just drop and then continued the romantic one without hinting or picking up the main story again.

insanely good, omg I love it

vampire romance
dark romance
5/5
spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
reincarnation
past lives
Dracula
vampires, witches
glamor
lies
secrets
deaths
true love
Dracula experiences his true love dying 3 times, and one of those times he killed her
great plot and crazy good plot twist
Dracula's love will always find Dracula or in this book he is Valtu

FMC is Dahlia, witch and vampire Slayer
MMC Valtu, vampire, the original Dracula

it has to suck for Valtu to find is true love and every time he loses her, no wonder is is broken 💔

Tragically Beautiful

I am obsessed with this book. I don’t want to give a single thing, I loved this book. Valtu is the vampire who inspired Dracula. Dahlia is a witch, a vampire slayer sent to kill the infamous Dracula. But when she got close enough to seduce him, she got too close and fell in love. Valtu falls just as fast. The spice between the two was fire! The plot of this story is just so beautiful. My heart shattered at the end of this book but hope was found in the epilogue. I immediately listened to the next book, Black Rose, which stitched my heart back together by the end. Highly recommend this story!

Spicy and a Great Dracula Spin

I really love the story and I’m immediately going to read the second book. The voice actors did an amazing job and I love the Dracula love story and there is a ton of spice in this a little bit too much for my taste, but the story was so good it didn’t deter from it