Blood Encrypted: Afterbite Book 1
V. Dalmatina
The ancient Roman vampire no longer feels anything—not guilt, not longing, not even the old hunger. She is precision a hunter of shadows, a collector of encrypted secrets, a woman who has outlived every empire and every attachment. Love, family, warmth—these are relics she buried under the ruins of Rome.
Then the trail leads her to Chinatown.
To Octavia, the sister she chased for five hundred years.
And to Maya, half-human, half-vampire. Maya is everything Seraphine forgot alive, laughing, fragile, radiant. Dimples when she smiles. A heartbeat Seraphine can hear across the room. A warmth that seeps through fifteen hundred years of frost.
Seraphine came to reclaim her sister.
She never expected to find something that could thaw her.
What began as a chase across centuries became a quiet instead of possession, domination, or heat, Seraphine discovered heart — and a sacred love so reverent it made her feel human again.
In Maya’s presence, eternity stopped being a sentence.
It became a prayer.
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