The Pursuit of Darkness

Ten years ago, Lucian Ward's unit walked into a forest hunting a Category Four vampire. Only he walked out - and only because she let him. Now he's gone rogue from Project Revenant, the black-budget agency that trained him to kill her kind, and he's been hunting her ever since. Not for vengeance. For an answer to the only question that has mattered since the night his team died around him: why am I still alive? When he finally finds her in a Moscow conservatory, Eliza is not what he expected. She is older than empires. Colder than the grave. And she has been waiting for him. The bond she forged the night she spared him was never meant to last. It was never meant to grow. But something in Lucian is changing - something the Firstborn have a name for, something that hasn't walked the earth in millennia. And Azrael, the oldest of her kind, has crossed an ocean to see it for himself. Eliza spared Lucian once. She may not be able to do it twice. A predator does not love its prey. But neither of them are prey anymore.