Blood and Velvet

Dark Vampire Romance

Kingston St. Clair is the most dedicated employee at the Pioneer Hollow Living History Museum. He has perfect posture, flawless 17th-century diction, and he never breaks character.

That’s because he isn’t acting.

For a five-hundred-year-old vampire, the museum is the perfect hiding spot. It’s the only place on earth where his archaic speech patterns are praised rather than mocked, and where wearing a velvet doublet doesn't draw suspicious stares. Kingston just wants to churn butter, judge the tourists, and live in peace on the land he’s haunted for centuries.

Enter Dr. Noelle Acosta.

As the museum’s new Site Director, Noelle is rigorous, ambitious, and completely fed up with Kingston. He refuses to follow the script. He argues with the tour guides about the local witch trials. He corrects her PhD-level research with the arrogant confidence of a man who was actually there. She is two days away from firing him for insubordination.

But when a group of rowdy teenagers breaks into the site at night and disturbs the old settlement's graves, they wake up something much worse than a grumpy reenactor.

The ghosts of Kingston’s past—the victims of a massacre he caused three hundred years ago—are rising. And they are hungry.

Suddenly, Noelle isn't worrying about Kingston’s employment status; she’s worrying about the fact that her difficult employee just ripped a ghost apart with his bare hands.

Now, trapped in a colonial village with a rising body count, Noelle has to trust the monster in the lace cuffs. Kingston is dangerous, bloodthirsty, and definitely not human—but he’s the only thing standing between her and the history books.

He’s not just protecting the museum. He’s guarding his secrets. And Noelle is the one truth he’s dying to taste.