The Vampire Who Lost His Wife and Child

On the night of their fifth wedding anniversary, the narrator rested in the arms of her vampire husband, Alaric, and was about to offer him her neck. The tender moment sets up a marriage bound by the strange hunger of his kind and by the deep affection they have built over the years. Their shared life seems secure until a looming threat begins to test what they mean to each other. The story follows a woman who refuses to let love slip away, even as the bond she treasures is pulled toward loss.