by M.A. Belle
Series: The Ashford Vampires #1
Community rating: 3/5 from 1 rating.
A grieving art student falls in love with a man who cannot die.
Ever since her mother’s death, Sera Marshall has been stuck living in a fog.
She hopes that starting her life over in a new place will help her heal. Sera leaves Boston, trading big city life for small town life in Appalachia, where her mother’s memory doesn’t linger. There, she enrolls in a graduate art program and meets Elias Whitmore.
When their professor forces them to work together on a portrait assignment, long hours in the studio ignite a slow-burn romance fueled by shared grief, art, and discovering the intimacy of what it means to be truly seen.
Sera feels like Elias is the first person to break through her fog. There’s just one problem: Elias isn’t a person at all. At least, not anymore.
Elias is a vampire. And the Tribunal, the governing body that controls his kind, has a rule—any human who discovers their secret must be turned or killed.
Sera’s human life is supposed to end the night she discovers Elias’s secret.
However, the Tribunal’s policy is one thing.
What Sera and Elias are willing to do in practice is another.
But evading the law has consequences that extend far beyond their relationship…
ISBN: 9798998296314
Published: 2026-10-29