Dead Languages

A M/M Dark Academia Vampire Romance

When visiting scholar Evan Austen arrives at Oxford to study ancient manuscripts, he's drawn by more than academic curiosity—something in the city calls to him like a half-remembered dream.

Dr. Arthur Byrne has walked Oxford's shadowed corridors for four centuries, hiding his vampiric nature behind a succession of false identities. But when he catches Evan's scent in the Bodleian Library, he recognizes the impossible: the soul of his lost love Alexandro, who died in Venice in 1623 during a failed immortality ritual.

As Evan experiences vivid dreams of Renaissance Venice and discovers he can read languages no living person should know, he and Arthur uncover a terrible truth—Evan isn't just Alexandro reincarnated, but something unprecedented. The failed ritual that killed him created a bridge between mortal and immortal, human and vampire, binding their souls across death itself.

Their search for the Codex Sanguinarius, a legendary text containing the complete transformation ritual, takes them from Oxford's ancient libraries to the ruins beneath Istanbul. But with each passing day, as Evan's memories awaken and Arthur's heart begins to beat again in his presence, they must decide: risk everything on a second attempt at transformation, or accept the brief decades a mortal life will allow them?

A gothic romance of eternal love and second chances, Dead Languages weaves passion and scholarship, desire and destiny, into a darkly sensual tale of two souls who refuse to let death have the final word.