The House of Night: A Vampire Detective Romance

Detective Elias Voss thought discovering his prime suspect was a vampire would be the strangest case of his career. He was wrong. Three months after the bloodless murders that brought Elias and Vivienne Vale together, the investigation is over-but whatever exists between them is only beginning. When Elias touches Vivienne, her cold skin becomes warm. When he kisses her, a heart that has been silent for more than a century begins to beat. And neither of them understands why. Then someone sends Elias a photograph taken outside his own home. SERAPHINE WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Hours later, a human heart arrives at the medical examiner's office. It is still beating. The trail leads Elias and Vivienne into a hidden world even Vivienne has spent decades avoiding: the Houses of Night, an ancient network where vampires settle debts, guard secrets, and enforce laws humans were never meant to know existed. But someone inside the Grayhaven House has resurrected research abandoned more than a century ago. Human subjects are disappearing. Vampire blood is being used in forbidden experiments. And buried records reveal something far more disturbing than Elias expected. Someone has been watching him for most of his life. As Elias investigates a conspiracy reaching back to Vivienne's human past and his own bloodline, the strange connection between them continues to deepen. Vivienne is beginning to experience sensations she thought immortality had taken from her forever-warmth, breath, hunger, sleep, desire, even the steady rhythm of her own heart. She has loved before. She has had lovers before. > Until Elias. Their growing intimacy may hold the key to understanding the phenomenon vampires once called the quickening. It may also be exactly what someone inside the House has been waiting for. Because the people hunting Elias and Vivienne do not believe their connection belongs to them. > Reproduced. Controlled. And they are willing to sacrifice anyone necessary to prove it. >If magic brought their worlds together, how much of what they feel is fate- > The House of Night is Book Two of The Mortal Vein Mysteries, a paranormal romantic-suspense series blending atmospheric murder mystery, vampires, forbidden secrets, slow-burn passion, and an immortal love story with very mortal consequences.