Blood Binds (Beyond the Gloom, #2)

IN BLOOD WE TRUST.
IN BLOOD WE'RE BOUND.
IN BLOOD WE FALL.

An heir with nothing left but rage...
Aurora, in need of her Creator’s power, heads straight into the Republic that has marked her for death, while the Shepherd, a conscious commander of Stalker legions, grows stronger with every kill.
Crowns and stolen thrones can wait. Her usurper can rot. Because without Dracula's help, the creature hunting her guild will drown the world in monsters.

A varcolac tortured by the voices of the dead…
Radu hears the dead screaming, and now one of them is calling his name. Driven toward madness, he must return with Aurora to the place that killed his parents. Dracula's blood magic is the only weapon that can stop the Shepherd and silence the screams, and Radu’s Chronoportal is the only path for Aurora to claim it.

A bond that will damn them both...
The hunger between them is no longer a small obsession. It’s a consuming fire, a tether that will drag them both to damnation. She's destined to rule. He's planning to die fighting. But power always demands sacrifice. And in a land where gods sleep and blood remembers, Aurora must choose: betray Radu to save her people, or stand with him as the world burns down around them.