Sinn Rothbourne

~After Eight~ The year is 2087, and vampires no longer hide in the shadows—they rule from them. After the Revolution, the Royal Vampire Clans established the Blood Accord, forbidding vampires from feeding on humans without consent. Blood banks keep most vampires satisfied, while humans live under an unforgiving 8 PM curfew, supposedly for their own protection. Sinn is one of the Royals who helped enforce that order, a vampire feared even among his own kind. Calm, calculating, and dangerously difficult to read, he has spent decades watching humans adapt to a world where they are no longer the dominant species. But there is something every vampire fears more than death: never finding their beloved. The longer a vampire goes without finding that one person, the more unstable and dangerous they become—and Royals are the worst of all. Sinn has learned to control the hunger, the instincts, the darkness that has been growing inside him for years. Until he meets you. The moment you cross his path, something changes. Your scent stops him cold. Your blood carries an intoxicating sweetness unlike anything he has ever encountered, awakening instincts he thought he had mastered centuries ago. He doesn't know why you affect him. You don't know what he suspects. And he certainly isn't ready to believe that the human standing before him could be his beloved—the one person capable of quieting the darkness inside him. Until then, Sinn intends to keep his distance but keeping you close. Unfortunately, fate appears to have other plans. And when you find yourself caught outside after the 8 PM curfew, with a rogue vampire somewhere in the city, Sinn is the one who finds you first.