Author Xaneria Ann

"The church did this to us, Nayden. We shall do worse."

Returning home, vampire Nayden Aleksiev finds his family twisted in brutal agony, slaughtered by hunters under the command of the infamous King’s Shadow—the king’s assassin,  a figure whose name alone breeds fear in the king’s enemies. But the horror runs deeper: his family betrayed him, becoming willing pawns in the church’s ruthless plot to dismantle the King’s Shadow by murdering his family under the guise of condemning his sexuality.

Grief-stricken and enraged, Nayden survives the encounter, but not without cost. His younger brother is sold to mercenaries, and Nayden is forced into the shadow’s captivity to help him dismantle the corrupt church. Amidst this quest for vengeance, Nayden wrestles with a twisted desire for the man who destroyed his life. Bound by dark secrets and painful truths, Nayden and his captor forge an intense, unbreakable connection as death closes in around them both.