Portrait Of Hunger: A Vampire Romance
Lyla Gray
Tess Morrow is broke, divorced, and one missed payment away from losing her studio to a landlord who wants more than rent. So when a reclusive stranger offers fifty thousand dollars for a single portrait at his isolated Gothic estate, she doesn't ask questions.
She should have.
Stellan is three hundred and forty-seven years old. He doesn't breathe unless he remembers to. He casts no reflection. And he hasn't fed properly in weeks — not because he can't, but because real intimacy terrifies him more than starvation.
He's commissioned twenty-seven portraits before hers. He can't remember a single artist's name.
But Tess sees what no one else has — the hunger beneath the mask, the loneliness behind the stillness. And when a winter storm traps her inside his estate with no way out, the distance between artist and subject disappears entirely. His mouth on her throat. Her pulse against his teeth. A feeding that becomes something neither of them expected.
She came to paint a monster. She stayed because he let her see the man underneath.
*Forced proximity Gothic romance Vampire hero Predator/prey Artist/muse*
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