Vampire Kisses, Demon Lies

A Vampire Prince. A Dangerous Secret. A City to Save.

By: Bill Tarino

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She thinks she is falling for a vampire prince. He is hiding the one truth that could damn them both.

Scholar Elara Hart only believes in two kinds of magic: the kind that bakes bread and the kind that keeps a city alive. Then she meets Lucien Varis, the golden prince whose smile quiets rooms and whose touch heats the silver in her veins. He is exactly what the whispers say, a vampire heir, yet the danger in him runs deeper. There is demon ash in his blood, and loving him has a cost the old books never wrote down.

When a zealot Council tries to chain sanctuaries, mirrors, and women’s names to a cruel set of rules, Elara and Lucien strike a pact of breath and rope, vows and questions. By day she teaches a city to ask for consent the way it asks for bread. By night he learns to be a person before a prince. Together they turn kitchens into courtrooms, laughter into law, and desire into a grammar that keeps knives from calling themselves holy.

But the Court of Ash audits souls at equinox. A ledger older than mercy wants payment, a bowl waits to turn yes into debt, and a duke with a marble smile intends to make Elara an instrument he can spend. The only way out is to make the city witness, at the river, at the gate, at the very steps where power has always performed, and to name love as something no book can own.

Vampire Kisses, Demon Lies is a lush, sensual paranormal romance about a scholar who will not be made a door, a prince who refuses to be a handle, and a city learning that ordinary goodness can overturn ancient hunger. Perfect for readers who crave slow burn heat, knife sharp banter, civic stakes, and consent driven intimacy.