All Your Bloody Lies

by M. L. Burns

Xeraphine has spent ten years hunting the five men who abducted, tortured, and buried her alive a decade ago, using the seductive, life-draining power of her Succubus nature (an ability she calls her Amoro) to track and kill anyone connected to them. Kairhyse, a Vampire enforcer assigned to stop a string of high-profile murders traced back to her, catches her mid-kill and becomes obsessed rather than turning her in, choosing instead to shield her from his own employer while chasing her, sleeping with her, and slowly becoming genuinely entangled in her life and her revenge.

What follows is a slow-burn, extremely explicit romance built on constant push-and-pull: Xeraphine’s refusal to be claimed, owned, or loved standing directly against Kairhyse’s total, possessive devotion, while she works her way methodically through the remaining men responsible for her captivity. Her best friend Sydni and an old ally named Tyson round out the found family orbiting her, even as the killings draw the attention of rival supernatural power structures who have their own reasons to want Xeraphine found, controlled, or silenced. The book builds toward a final confrontation that recontextualizes who has actually been hunting her all along, and ends with no resolution in sight.

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