The vampire's cross book one: beginning: Craven

He was never meant to survive. She was never meant to want him. Craven was born under a murder of crows- and that omen sealed his fate before he could walk. A female vampire had waited lifetimes for the man born beneath that dark sign. Her fated mate. Her obsession. She never considered what it would cost him. She took everything. His family. His mortality. His wife. His unborn child. All of it burned to ash- along with the home he'd known- so that nothing would remain to mark what she had done. Now Craven walks a world he no longer belongs to. Fulled by rage and the blood of the living, he searches for a reason to keep going- until a dying sire hands him something unexpected, a code to survive, a cross to carry, and the faint possibility of a life worth living. In a royal court full of mortal men and women, he finds a witch named Marigold- and something he never thought he'd feel again. But Marigold carries her own destiny. Her bloodlines are bound to protect Craven across centuries of deep sleep, through daughters and their daughters, through a promise older than either of them understands. Some bonds are chosen. Some are written into blood before you're born. And some can only be broken by death- or something far worse.

Pages: 193, Paperback, Independently published