Blood Orange - Karina Halle

n nFrom the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of Black Sunshine and River of Shadows comes a new dark vampire romance about the vampire known as Dracula.n n nn nOnce there was a man who fell deeply in love with a woman he could never have. When their affair was uncovered she was brutally murdered in front of him, and he discovered he was cursed, doomed to live forever as a vampire.n nOver the centuries, he found his love again, and lost her again, until he was so broken he gave up on love entirely, sinking into the depths of depravity, losing his humanity.n nThen one day, she came back into his life. A student of music studying under him at the conservatory in Venice, Italy where he was a professor.

But even though he found her beautiful and intriguing, he didn't recognize his fated mate at all.n nBecause this time she had to hide her true self.n nThis time she came back as a witch, whose destiny wasn't to love him...but to kill him.n n nn nBlood Orange is a modern-day Dracula retelling about the real-life Dracula that inspired Bram Stoker. This is a dark vampire romance with plenty of content warnings (please check interior of book) and while it is a spinoff of The Dark Eyes Duet, it can be read as a standalone.n