Love After Blood
Vancouver. A city drenched in rain, neon, and secrets.
Amid its cold skyline, Liam Thomas, a man drowning in heartbreak and moral exhaustion, steps into an elevator one night —and into the beginning of his own damnation.
What begins as an evening of blurred whiskey and borrowed desire turns into horror when he witnesses the impossible: a woman of ethereal beauty feeding on the throat of his friend. Her name is Anna Viktorie, though that is only the name she uses among humans. In truth, she is Alessia Zlata, a creature as old as sin, her existence written in centuries of blood and silence.
From that night forward, Liam’s life fractures. The world calls him a murderer. The police brand him a liar. His girlfriend abandons him. Only his therapist, Dr. Miroslava Novak, listens—though her calm gaze hides knowledge far older than psychology should allow. Haunted by visions, dreams, and whispers, Liam begins to feel her presence inside him, as if the echo of Anna’s hunger has left a mark deeper than flesh.
Yet in that haunting, something begins to shift.
Fear turns to obsession.
Obsession becomes longing.
Anna, drawn to the pulse of his blood and the purity of his defiance, breaks her own code to return to him. Under a new guise—Valery, the mysterious woman who “works nights”—she reenters his life like a ghost wearing perfume. Their meetings are accidental at first, wrapped in the innocent rhythm of conversation, music, and city lights. But each encounter brings her closer to the edge between love and hunger.
As Liam fights to rebuild his ruined life, he cannot escape her shadow. Every mirror hides her reflection; every silence carries her breath. And though he senses the danger, he cannot stop seeking her—because in her darkness he recognizes his own.
Their bond becomes a pact of blood and desire, one that defies nature itself. Anna’s hunger is no longer merely for blood but for the echo of humanity she thought she had lost. And Liam’s need for her becomes both his punishment and his salvation. Together, they walk the line between redemption and ruin, bound by a passion so deep it threatens to consume what remains of their souls.
But others are watching.
Miroslava, the enigmatic doctor with eyes like green frost, knows what Anna truly is—and what she is running from. The vampire world does not forgive affection; it devours it.
And in the dark corners of Vancouver’s rain-drenched nights, ancient forces stir, sensing that one of their own has broken the oldest of laws: to love a mortal.
Love After the Blood is a dark romance that blends passion, guilt, and the supernatural into a story of forbidden love and eternal hunger.
A tale where every heartbeat is a confession, every kiss a wound, and where love itself becomes the most dangerous addiction of all.
