Bounties and Bite Marks: A High-Spice Paranormal RomanceBounties and Bite Marks is a high-spice, intense paranormal romance featuring forced partnership, second chance enemies to lovers, a possessive vampire protector, a lethal bounty hunter heroine, old betrayal, supernatural danger, and a burn that turns hatred back into obsession.
Raina Locke has built her life hunting monsters, collecting bounties, and never trusting anyone with fangs.
Years ago, the vampire she loved handed her over to an enemy court and left her scarred, furious, and alone. Since then, Raina has survived by keeping her weapons sharp, her heart locked down, and her rules simple: finish the job, collect the pay, and never believe a monster who says he cares.
After her latest bounty turns up dead before she can collect him, Raina is dragged into a supernatural conspiracy that points straight back to the vampire court that ruined her life. She needs answers, proof, and a way to stay alive long enough to cash in the contract.
What she does not need is Bastian Mire.
Bastian is elegant, dangerous, powerful, and still looks at Raina like she is the only heartbeat in the room.
He is the vampire who once broke her trust.
He is also the only man who knows the court’s secrets well enough to keep her breathing.
Their arrangement is supposed to be simple:
She needs to catch the fugitive.
He needs to clear his name.
Neither of them needs old hunger.
Or one dangerous safehouse.
Or the way every fight ends with his hands too close to her throat.
Or the way he still acts like he would burn the whole vampire court down before letting anyone touch her again.
She is supposed to bring in the bounty.
He is not supposed to protect her like she still belongs to him.
But in a neon-drenched city of blood courts, witch markets, underground tunnels, and monsters with debts to collect, every touch gets harder to dismiss. Every bite of old history starts bleeding through. And the more Raina and Bastian depend on each other to survive, the harder it is to remember that she promised herself she would never want him again.
Bastian has spent his life believing love means making brutal choices alone.
Raina has spent hers believing love makes her weak enough to be betrayed.
When the truth about the night he lost her finally comes crashing in, they’ll have to decide if this partnership is only another dangerous mistake…
Or if the vampire who broke her heart is the only one ruthless enough to help put it back together.
Bounties and Bite Marks is a high-spice standalone paranormal romance with a guaranteed HEA.
Tropes include:
Forced partnership
Second chance
Enemies to lovers
Vampire protector
Paranormal bounty hunter heroine
Touch her and die
One-bed / one-safehouse forced proximity
Betrayal and emotional repair
No cheating
No OW/OM drama
HEA guaranteed
