His Bloodbound Mate

One bond. Two sovereigns. A city determined to prove their love is a form of control.

Audra Keene fought for the right to stand beside Baltimore's vampire king.

Now she is beginning to feel everything he does.

His hunger fills her mouth with the taste of copper. His anger sends cold racing beneath her skin. His pain reaches her before he speaks. The bond between them is no longer an intimate secret. It is a supernatural link growing stronger by the night, and Audra cannot decide whether it is making her more powerful or slowly stealing the privacy of her own mind.

As the first human chair of the Interim Oversight Panel, Audra is determined to dismantle the systems that allowed the First Houses to own human lives through blood, debt, and unbreakable contracts. Her next target is House Marlowe, a vampire dynasty protected by wealth, influence, and generations of carefully buried crimes.

Marlowe does not intend to survive the audit quietly.

The remaining Houses claim Audra's connection to Bastian Sorel has made independent judgment impossible. Every shared sensation becomes evidence against her. Every moment of weakness threatens the authority she fought to secure. And when a hidden ledger surfaces with the power to destroy the Oversight Panel, Audra must prove she is more than an extension of the Sovereign's will.

Bastian has spent four centuries ruling through fear and absolute control. But Audra is the one person he cannot command without risking everything they have built. As unrest spreads through the Night Ward and rival Houses move against his throne, his instinct is to shelter her, possess her, and destroy anyone who threatens her.

To save their city, he must do something far more dangerous.

He must trust her to lead.

With the Compact fracturing and their bond pulling them closer to the edge, Audra and Bastian must transform supernatural compulsion into chosen devotion before their enemies use it to divide them.

Because the Night Ward will never accept two sovereigns unless they are willing to bleed as one.

A dark, high-heat paranormal romance featuring an established power couple, an intensifying supernatural bond, a possessive vampire king, a brilliant human ruler, shared sensations, political betrayal, legal warfare, gothic atmosphere, and a love powerful enough to reshape an ancient city.