A Legacy built on secrets. Ryon has no memory of his life as a human - being made and not born did that to a Vampire. As an enforcer to the Vampire King, it was his duty not to ask questions. And when the King declares war on the humans of Ladwick, Ryon suppresses the voice of his conscience to follow orders. Amid the chaos, he meets a captivating human woman called Laina. Fragments of a past shrouded in secrecy come to the surface when Ryon finds himself caught between his loyalty to the crown, his desire to protect Laina and the ever-growing feeling that he was made to do something else. Be someone else. Laina was a shadow of her former self after abruptly losing her parents six months ago. Locals believed their deaths to be the work of Vampires, but that was impossible because Vampires didn’t exist. She couldn’t bring herself to believe the rumours, but when bodies began showing up with the same tell-tale wounds as found on her parents, she couldn’t help but question what she knew. Then one night, she met Ryon. He was mysterious, handsome, and endearing. And he was also the one thing she never believed existed. A Vampire.

Brynn hated vampires. Or at least she had before her sister became their Queen, leaving her with no choice but to accept their world as her own. And along with that came Kove. As one of the Royal enforcers, Kove was always in the palace, ready to say something obnoxious and press her buttons. He was infuriating, to say the least, but he was also protective to a fault, considerate and sexy as hell. But he was still a vampire, and she needed to remember that. Kove had a two-hundred-and-fifty-year grudge against humans for killing the love of his life. As a vampire, he’d rather drink from cold blood bags than straight from the vein of a human because, at least that way, he didn’t need to touch them. But then Kove met Brynn, sister of the new vampire Queen. She was stubborn, self-assured, and the epitome of everything he hated about humans. When a rival King declares war and Brynn is caught in the crossfire, can Kove overcome his hate for humans to rescue her before it’s too late? Or will the ghosts of his past remind him where his loyalty should lie? Loyal to the Past is the second book in the Protected by the Shadows series.

Her sacrifice will cost him everything. Ten years ago, Reed begged the vampire king to turn a dying human man in exchange for her freedom—a choice she’s regretted ever since. Confined to the palace, she spends her nights delivering meals to prisoners, seething with hatred for the man she should have let die. But when he turns up as a new prisoner and stirs up emotions she never expected to feel, her resentment for him threatens to uncover memories he was forced to forget. Fynn knows it’s only a matter of time before the vampire king of Cruxford executes him—and he’s glad of it. With no memory of becoming a vampire, he’s haunted by the horror of his first kill, and he’s ready for the monster inside of him to be put to rest. But when he meets the mysterious woman who delivers the meal to his cell each night, he starts to question if he’s ready to die after all. As war breaks out, and the king’s plan for Reed unfolds, she must decide if Fynn’s life is worth more than her freedom—and Fynn must decide if Reed is worth more than the truth.