Blood Across the River
Book Two in The Cold City is live now.
She handles blood for a living. He has spent a century trying not to want too much of it.
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Maya Wu works close to blood, close to death, and close to systems that punish people for needing help. She believes in control because control keeps people alive.
Leo Lian built his life around beauty, hunger, and restraint. He knows what he is. He knows what he wants. He also knows wanting Maya could ruin the last rule keeping him human enough to matter.
When an old Cold City door opens across the river, Maya and Leo are pulled into a hidden world of blood debt, dangerous intimacy, and a promise that refuses to stay buried.
Some hunger is survival. Some hunger is surrender. Some hunger changes the city.
Blood, hunger, possession — and consequence.
- Vampire romance
- Blood magic
- Dangerous restraint
- Forbidden attraction
- Hidden New York
- Possessive but consent-driven hero
- High heat with emotional consequence
- Connected paranormal romance series
Start beneath the stadium.
Start The Cold City with Blood Under the Lights, where Marisol Vega finds the first hidden door beneath Yankee Stadium and chooses the vampire she was warned to leave behind.
Blood Across the River is an adult paranormal romance — high heat with emotional consequence. It includes explicit on-page intimacy, biting, blood-sharing, consensual blood play, vampire violence, grief, and dark supernatural danger. Every intimate act is consensual.
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Cross the river.
Blood Across the River is live now on Amazon.