A Vampire’s Lament

One vampire, one mortal, and one love that death cannot separate.

Ishmael Valen has spent centuries forbidding his vampiric instincts, crafting himself into a benevolent monster with peace as his sword and forever comforted by the memories of the love he lost centuries ago. Now the leader of a monster council and adoptive father to a nine-year-old mortal son, he has long accepted his romantic love will remain in the grave.

Until Edric O’Moore enters his manor.

Edric has spent his life wandering and teaching, anything to outrun the twin beat of his heart—that thrums wildly at the sight of Ishmael Valen. As if it recognizes him.

Accepting a home teaching position for Ishmael’s son, Alaric, should be employment only. Yet from the moment they meet, Ishmael feels hauntingly familiar. As life beneath the roof of Wynterhyll Manor draws them closer with moonlit walks and town outings, an impossible romance begins to blossom. But while they struggle to understand the connection between them, strange abilities awaken within Alaric, attracting dangerous attention from those who would use the boy for their own ends.

With dark forces rising and secrets from the past refusing to remain buried, Ishmael and Edric must decide whether the bond growing between them is merely chance—or proof that some loves endure beyond death itself.

Book One of the Wynterhyll Chronicles