The Immortal Obsession

"For five hundred years, he found her. She fell in love. She remembered him. And then she died."

In this lifetime, she remembers him first, and she refuses to be his ghost. Elara Wren thought the suffocating nightmares of Victorian fog, Parisian poison, and blades in the dark were just the price of an overactive imagination and restoring centuries-old canvases. But when a priority restoration job reveals her own face on a 500-year-old portrait, the man from her dreams steps out of the shadows and into her gallery. Lucien Veyre is nearly six hundred years old, the terrifying, elegant ruler of London’s hidden vampire underworld. For half a millennium, he has carried the ashes and blood of the only woman he ever loved, trapped in a ruthless cycle where her soul returns only to be violently stolen from him before she turns thirty. In every life, the curse follows the same fatal rule: the moment she remembers his face, the countdown begins. Except Elara isn’t playing the fragile, doomed heroine. She knows about the ancient council harvesting her soul, she knows the dark power humming in her veins, and she refuses to let his possessive grief dictate her future. As old enemies close in and a rare Blood Moon rises over London, Lucien will tear down empires and slaughter kings to keep her breathing. But breaking an ancient soul-cage requires a price the immortal predator never prepared for: choosing between ruling eternity alone, or giving up his crown for a single, mortal lifetime.