Bound to Stay: a Dark Romantasy of Vampires, Werewolves, and Second-Chance Love

Terysse Valoir has spent two centuries alive and eighty years running from a single city. When the Council summons her back to Valdenmoor, she knows it isn't an invitation - it's a debt finally come due. What she doesn't expect is to find, waiting in the same room where everything ended decades ago, the one man she left without ever explaining why. Vaelor Norath still looks at her the way he always did: like he already knows more than she's willing to say. Together, they're forced to track down an archive scattered across seven volumes, hidden throughout a city of fog, canals, and factions that have watched each other for centuries - vampires ruling from the shadows, werewolves bound by a code of honor older than any human treaty, and hunters who draw no line between monster and person. What starts as a search for old records becomes the only chance to stop something Terysse's own past helped set in motion: a forgotten mechanism that threatens to consume the entire territory unless three factions that despise each other find a way, against every instinct, to trust one another. Racing against a countdown none of them can stop, Terysse is forced to face the one thing she's avoided for two hundred years: the real reason she ran from Valdenmoor was never the city itself. And the hardest debt to settle isn't with the Council, or the wolves - it's with the one person who never stopped waiting for her. Bound to Stay is a centuries-spanning love story about impossible loyalties and the kind of fate you don't choose once, but every single night you decide not to run. Perfect for readers of paranormal romance, dark fantasy, and second-chance immortal love.