Premise
When the Category 5 Hurricane Gert decimates Port Isabel, Texas the locals are not the only ones left with the shattered timbers of their lives. Just twenty miles to the southeast and beyond human comprehension but not immune to the wrath of mother nature, the vampire city Darkmore lies in exposed ruin. Among the dead is Darkmore’s King Louis Marate, and the city is in a panic.
Like the humans in Port Isabel, their crucial needs are compromised. Food, shelter, and safety are all mandatory, but unlike their human neighbors, no emergency aid is coming.
Decades pass of Darkmore making do with what they have, and what they have is very little. In memory of the deceased Louis, his daughter Sevon has ascended the throne as a cruel tyrant. The nobles and royal houses live in passable comfort while the commoners struggle and scrounge for their very existence. They are all merely surviving, and Sevon must save her people or risk losing her crown or worse her fangs.
Sevon and her council conspire to invade the shifter refuge of Priagust and take the well protected city as their new home. Sevon vows she will usher in a new era for Darkmore and her dying people under any means necessary. The vampires will live even if that means crushing a civilization.
When Sevon’s armigers capture a native from Priagust, a shifter named Jack, he claims he merely wanted to see with his own eyes who would dare tarnish Louis Marate’s good name. He wanted to meet those responsible for the assassination of the good king that protected them.
More than anything, Jack wants to spit in the eye and piss on the grave of Darkmore’s new queen for grinding it into the dust.
Sevon is not only insulted but intrigued. Who is this little maggot to presume he knew her father? Sevon will drag the truth out of Jack one way or the other, bit by bit, finger by finger, tooth by tooth, eye by eye…
Queen Sevon Marate does not tolerate secrets.
- Darkmore is a mainstream romance meant for those 18 and older. This story contains violence, sexual situations, and language.