Belle Morte

Belle Morte is one of five residences where vampires live as public figures, and where people are paid to supply them with blood. The narrator arrives with one goal: to find her sister, who walked into the house five months ago and has not been seen since.

The house hides far more than she expected, and the hints she uncovers about what happened to her sister grow more unsettling by the day. Her only real lead is Edmond Dantès, a vampire she considers her enemy. Yet she feels a pull toward him that frightens her.

The harder she resists, the deeper she falls. Then a single moment changes everything. Her old life becomes a mere prelude, and her future is locked behind the house's doors. The house has made its claim on her, and it may never let her leave.