Vitality

A Complex Dark Unconventional Romance.

"Crysta Levere's Vitality is an unusual addition to the paranormal/supernatural genre…In this atmospheric tale, you are truly pulled down the rabbit hole and into madness as you follow Ava's journey into the depths of insanity and beyond…Confusion, mystery, longing, desperation, and deception weave throughout this three-part story and you'll be dying to know how everything ends." - K.J. Simmill

Every rose has a thorn. Every love draws blood.

Ava has spent most of her life half-alive, starving, wilting, barely surviving. Then Layton pulls her into the shadows and sets her world on fire.

He emerges from the dark with eyes black as midnight, a presence like a fallen angel promising both salvation and destruction. Dangerous. Ancient. Obsessed. And he means to take her. He haunts her dreams, invades her thoughts, and claims her with a possessive intensity that both terrifies and thrills. Their connection is electric, consuming, possibly destroying her grip on reality itself, and still, she's unable to give herself completely.

But is Layton even real?

After a mental breakdown, Ava is drawn to a coastal town shrouded in fog and secrets, searching for a reason to keep breathing and way to piece together her fractured past. The world's already tried to make a monster out of her — turned her pain into something sharp, taught her that caring is weakness and trust is a death sentence. And she fights like hell to keep her heart alive.

But as her light grows it attracts the monsters in the dark.

As her belief that love is only as real as fairytales blooms into something real, the more an ancient emptiness aches for what she has. The further he goes to possess her, the more he loses possession of himself. The deeper she falls into his world, the more her reality fractures. And Layton — cold, calculating, impossibly patient — might be the only solid thing left. Or the beautiful nightmare destroying her completely…

"Can you believe, Ava?" he whispers.

She's fighting for life. He's fighting for death. What does it take to live? What does it take to love?

As she resists inviting him deeper into herself and succumbs to him in equal measure, and the mystery of who he is and what he wants from her unravels, she discovers the choice is hers alone: does she invite him into her life, her world, the very core of her heart and soul — or walk away from the only thing that's ever made her feel whole?

But a heart that's survived the world's cruelty doesn't break — it learns to bloom in darkness. And that might be more powerful than either of them imagined.

In a world that feeds on numbness, a strong heart is the rarest magic of all.

A dark paranormal romance about obsessive love that might be madness, an unreliable narrator fighting for her humanity, and the dangerous choice between staying soft or becoming the monster.

.Explicit Sexual Content