THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
But the world outside did not pause for their devotion.
Miles away, in the labyrinthine silence of the Cathedral Archives, Archpriest Dominic Vermont was hunched over a desk illuminated by a glowing data-terminal. His eyes, cold and calculating, scanned the latest intelligence reports. The lines of text spelled out a trajectory of suspicion”whispers of a powerful, spectral benefactor moving in the shadows of the Vesper Estate, and the alarming proximity of his daughter to the center of the heresy.