A Knight sworn to protect the city from evil. A vampire bound in chains. A desire that could destroy them both.

Atlas

I was trained to kill monsters-

Not crave the one chained beneath my home.

As a Knight of Cindervail, I'm everything the Legion demands: disciplined, deadly, untouchable. But on the night of my final trial, it wasn't the Legion that saved me.

It was a vampire.

Emilian.

Now he's leashed and muzzled by the Vail, my illegal asset locked in my basement. I only let him out for missions that need a monster's teeth. That's the story we tell.

But the truth is darker. Every night, I go back to him-for the heat, the hunger, the sin I can't stop committing. Our connection is forbidden. Addictive. And when my best friend vanishes and demons begin tearing through Cindervail, I'm forced to face an impossible choice:

Save the city I swore to protect-

Or surrender to the vampire who makes me feel alive.

Emilian

I wasn't born a monster.

I was made one-and then left to rot.

In Cindervail, vampires like me aren't given trials. We're exterminated. I should've died the night I met Atlas, the Knight who should have put a blade through my heart. Instead, he let me live.

Now I survive chained beneath his home like a secret sin. Muzzled. Bound. Used as a weapon while I fight the city's nightmares by his side. We pretend it's duty. But I see the truth in his eyes every time he touches me-the tremor in his hands, the hunger in his breath.

The city is rotting. The rifts are widening. Demons are coming through the cracks. Soon, Atlas will have to choose-

The city that made him a weapon,

Or the creature he should have killed.