Crystal Clear Standing: A Fortuna Delphi Midlife Tale Beyond Mystic’s End

Fortuna Delphi-Trevino's marriage has survived a vampire hunter, a family curse, and a mother who's technically a greyhound. It might not survive paperwork.When a five-vampire delegation arrives in Mystwich Hollow with impeccable credentials and a proposal designed to split the town in half, Fortuna is ready to fight. Then the delegation's second-in-command informs her that Chris's blood bond was never registered with the Ambrogio-the governing authority over vampire territorial claims. In their eyes, her ten-year marriage doesn't exist.Now Fortuna is navigating a political system built by vampires for vampires, where her telepathy means nothing, her coven authority carries no weight, and someone inside Mystwich is feeding the delegation information they shouldn't have. The man across the negotiating table watches her like something to be catalogued. And a 333-year-old alderman everyone assumed was just recovering from torpor has been quietly building a counter-argument no one saw coming.Fortuna can't outfight the Ambrogio. But she might be able to change the game-if she can figure out who's been playing both sides first.