The Vampire Duke of London has been murdered.
His body still twitches where it was hung.
Beneath the city you know lies Other London — a hidden world of vampire houses, witch covens, and fey courts bound together by a centuries-old peace.
That peace died with the Duke.
Dismembered and displayed across the borders of three rival territories, his murder is impossible.
The message is not.
War is coming.
Inquisitor Albrecht Voss is four hundred years old, cold, and feared.
He is also the only person who knows the truth about the dead Duke.
They were friends for centuries.
Now Voss will find the killer.
No law, no faction, and no border will stop him.
His new partner is the last person he would have chosen.
Eleanor Hexwood is a witch, a diviner, and the coven’s sharpest investigator.
She has never trusted vampires.
Now she has been ordered to work beside one.
Together they follow a trail of forbidden magic, political conspiracy, and murder through the hidden streets of London.
What they uncover is far worse than a single killing.
A relic has been stolen.
A wooden box now sits in the hands of a petty thief who has no idea what he’s carrying.
Something ancient.
Something alive.
The First Heart — the beating heart of the first vampire ever created.
Every faction in Other London wants it.
And every one of them will kill to take it.
Because the war has already begun.
THE FIRST HEART is the first novel in the Eat Not the Blood series.
A dark urban fantasy of occult mysteries, supernatural conspiracies, and two enemies forced to solve a murder and recover a relic before London tears itself apart.
