Ever since a terrible fire killed her older son, one ambition has ruled Countess Lazlaric. Desperate to continue the family legacy, she is determined that her rakehell second son wed and produce an heir. Now, she’s found the perfect bride. A distant relative, writing to beg for help, is ideal for her secret plans. Alone in the world, beautiful raven-haired Senna Landseth finds more than just Drom Manor’s isolation sending a shiver down her spine. Countess Lazlaric seems overly eager to welcome her, strange noises fill the cavernous corridors of the gloomy manor, and she senses she is being spied upon. Then a note mysteriously appears, inscribed with chilling “I’m watching you. Nicolai.” In the years since the fire that supposedly destroyed him, Nicolai Lazlaric has inhabited the world of a vampire, consumed with seeking revenge on the creature who turned him. Now, it is time to return to Drom Manor. But Nicolai has no idea how badly the Countess wants an heir—or that his hated brother’s prospective bride is residing there. Senna’s unexpected presence upends Nicolai’s plans, for he can think only of possessing the beautiful innocent, of taking her in a blood-binding seduction from which she will never escape...

USA TODAY bestselling author and “The Queen of Erotic Romance,” delivers a new eBook sequel to her passionate and sensual historical vampire novel, The Darkest Heart. With London still in the grip of the unsolved vampire murders, Senna Landseth finds herself cornered—she’s newly turned and newly pregnant with the Lazlaric heir, a child whose blood is the key to the destruction of one of the most murderous vampire clans. With dark forces at work to destroy her, and men wooing her from all sides, Senna must figure out who is trustworthy, who is after her unborn child, and who is after her heart.