Blood, Books, and the Vampire Who Broke My Budget

She was hired to organize his house. She never expected to fall for the man in the basement archive - or the four-hundred-year-old secret he's been guarding alone.Abigail Marshall walked away from her accounting career, her cardiologist's warnings, and every version of the life she was supposed to want, and took the first job that offered her a fresh start: live-in property manager to a reclusive, wealthy, aggressively private man in a Victorian mansion on the edge of Lake Michigan. Three restricted rooms. A pantry with no food in it. A boss who never seems to sleep, never eats a meal in front of her, and asks her not to ask questions about the basement.Abi is very good at not asking questions she's told not to ask.She's less good at ignoring the way Kinge watches her across the library, or the low hum of something she can't explain that seems to live in the walls of this house, or the growing, undeniable suspicion that the man she works for is not entirely - or even mostly - human.When the truth finally surfaces, it's bigger and older and far more dangerous than anything her carefully color-coded spreadsheets prepared her for. Kinge isn't just hiding what he is. He's hiding centuries of it - and the closer Abi gets to the archive he's spent his whole unnaturally long life protecting, the more she realizes some secrets don't stay buried quietly, and not everyone wants them to stay buried at all.A slow-burn small-town paranormal romance about a meticulously organized woman, an impossibly old vampire, and the particular kind of falling in love that happens one repaired boiler, one shared library evening, and one dangerous secret at a time.Perfect for readers who love gothic mansions, brooding immortal love interests, cozy small-town settings with a supernatural undercurrent, and a heroine who solves emotional chaos the same way she solves logistical chaos - thoroughly, and without flinching.

Pagina's: 196, Paperback, Indy Pub