Blood of the Founding

Dr. Elena Vance has spent her whole life being the only person in the room who always knows when something’s wrong.

She just never knew why.

Six months before her thirty-fifth birthday, the Jeffersonian’s sharpest researcher of archaic Eastern European cultures starts coming apart at the seams — finding clumps of her own hair in odd places, craving her steaks barely dead, and snarling at her own vacuum cleaner like it owes her money.

When her adoptive parents finally hand her a centuries-old letter left by the birth mother she never knew, the trail leads out of D.C., across an ocean, and up into the Carpathian Mountains — to a village that takes one look at her face, drops what it’s holding, and whispers that she’s supposed to be dead.

She’s not. And her being alive is about to start a war.

Because Elena isn’t just descended from werewolves. She’s the last daughter of a hunted bloodline — and the gift sleeping under her skin is the one thing a thousand-year-old liar has spent centuries trying to bury.

Now Elena has until midnight on her birthday to master a power she doesn't understand, survive an enemy who wants her isolated and broken, and decide whether the infuriating alpha trying to protect her is her greatest ally — or her most dangerous distraction.

The truth runs in her blood.

So does the bite.

BLOOD OF THE FOUNDING is a steamy paranormal romance for readers who like their fated mates infuriating, their best friends feral, and their werewolves served with a side of dry wit.