The Predator’s Muse
The monster who terrifies the whole world would rather kneel and die than let a single drop of her blood be spilled.
Isolde is a reclusive cellist marked for death by a religious hunter guild that believes her music summons demons; her only refuge is a decaying opera house where an unseen predator watches her play.
When the guild finally storms her sanctuary, the vampire Severin descends to butcher them and carries her down into a warded catacomb fortress beneath the city.
There he keeps her as his protected muse, feeding only on rival males so his hunger never turns on her, while Isolde is drawn ever deeper into a devotion that blurs captivity and worship.
The book follows their escalating bond as the guild keeps sending zealots into the dark and Isolde decides whether the cage he built is a prison or a throne.
Tropes: possessive/obsessive hero, captivity romance, human heroine and monster hero, vampire, dark protector, touch-her-and-you-die, morally black hero, forced proximity, watcher/stalker to lover, fated obsession, beauty-tames-the-beast, she-is-his-only-weakness
Story promises: Guaranteed HEA · multiple POV · past tense (what this means)
Content notes: explicit sexual content; graphic violence and gore; on-page killing; captivity/confinement; coercive power dynamics; dubious consent (extreme power imbalance); obsessive possessiveness; stalking; blood/exsanguination (full index)
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