Godless & Given Series by L. Ford

Raised in the gutter and forged by blood, Liora Ashenvale never asked for salvation—especially not from the creatures she’s spent her entire life resisting. But when she and her found-family are caught defying the vampire regime, they’re given two die… or become weapons.Conscripted into a brutal program run by the vampire military, Liora is injected with her handler’s blood—the First Bite. It makes her stronger. Faster. Deadlier. But it also ties her to him. Malric Vhaelor. The shadow-walker... moreRaised in the gutter and forged by blood, Liora Ashenvale never asked for salvation—especially not from the creatures she’s spent her entire life resisting. But when she and her found-family are caught defying the vampire regime, they’re given two die… or become weapons.Conscripted into a brutal program run by the vampire military, Liora is injected with her handler’s blood—the First Bite. It makes her stronger. Faster. Deadlier. But it also ties her to him. Malric Vhaelor. The shadow-walker. The executioner of kings. The monster even other monsters fear.He trains her like a soldier. Touches her like a stranger. Watches her like he’s calculating exactly how—and when—she’ll fail. And maybe she will, because every sparring match, every breathless mission into Lycan territory chips away at her humanity… and pulls her deeper into the orbit of a man whose heart is said to be long dead.As the war between vampires and Lycans escalates, and a new breed of hybrid horror begins to emerge, Liora and her crew must learn to survive Malric’s world. But survival means obedience. And Liora has never followed well.Because Malric may be her handler. He may even be her creator.But he will never be her master.Not if she has to kill him to prove it. less

They tried to turn me into a soldier.Instead, they woke something that should’ve stayed buried.We were nothing—orphans raised in the ruins, thieves surviving off blood and shadow. Until we were caught. Until the vampires gave us a die… or become weapons in their endless war.Now I march under their flag. Bleed for them. Train beside the creatures that once hunted us. But loyalty here is earned in pain—and secrets.And mine runs deeper than anyone knows.Because something is wrong with me... moreThey tried to turn me into a soldier.Instead, they woke something that should’ve stayed buried.We were nothing—orphans raised in the ruins, thieves surviving off blood and shadow. Until we were caught. Until the vampires gave us a die… or become weapons in their endless war.Now I march under their flag. Bleed for them. Train beside the creatures that once hunted us. But loyalty here is earned in pain—and secrets.And mine runs deeper than anyone knows.Because something is wrong with me.I’m not turning. Not human anymore, either.The bite should have broken me—but it didn't.It awakened something older. Something forgotten.Malric Vhaelor, the vampire who owns every room he steps into, sees it too. He watches me like I’m a prophecy he’s already failed once. And when he touches me, I feel power coil through my blood like it belongs to someone else.Someone dangerous.Now an ancient soul binder has risen, whispering of a shattered queen whose soul was ripped apart to stop the end of the world—and the shard of her that lives inside me.But the dead don’t stay buried forever.And I’m about to learn that the worst monsters aren’t the ones who bite.They're the ones who remember. less