Dark Heart of the Sun

Cassidy Chandler wakes with a bruise she can’t explain, a blank space where last night should be, and the cold certainty that her fiancé is no longer the man she agreed to marry. Walking out on Jackson Striker and his powerful family should feel like freedom. Instead, it lands her in a run-down beach cottage on Florida’s sweltering coast — with no money, no plan, and a roommate she didn’t expect.

Dominique Marchant is volatile, infuriating, and hiding something beneath his sharp tongue and sharper swords. Only last year, he was a carefree young chef in the sun-drenched Caribbean. Now he’s a vampire — confined to the night, tormented by the lives he must take, and clinging to the last shred of his humanity in the walls of the very cottage Cassidy just moved into.

He should drive her away before his bloodlust destroys her. Instead, night after night, he’s drawn into her chaotic, fiercely independent life — and discovers something he thought lost for good.

As a rare, intoxicating telepathic bond ignites between them, Cassidy begins to unravel the mystery of the troubled man stealing her heart. But Dominique isn’t the only predator circling. The truth behind her stolen night is closing in, and the Striker family she left behind has its own dark designs.

Discovering his truth could kill her. Loving him anyway might be the most dangerous thing either of them has ever done.

Dark Heart of the Sun is the first book in the Dark Destinies trilogy — a slow-burn paranormal romance with a brooding French vampire hero, a fearless heroine, forced proximity, a fated telepathic bond, and a love that defies the boundary between mortal and immortal.

For fans of J.R. Ward, Kresley Cole, and Christine Feehan.

Content note: steamy scenes, violence, morally gray characters, and a cat named Eddie who judges everyone.