Awaken, My Love

He feels nothing. The vampire feels everything. The castle wants the rest.

Astaire Bloom has spent his life numb. Forty-one jobs, forty-one failures, and nothing left but exhaustion. Until he finds an ad for a job that offers good pay and a perfect place to disappear.

The work should be simple.
Obey. Endure. Don’t ask questions.

But the castle breathes. The rooms smell wrong. The walls seem to watch him.

And then there is Abaś.
Large, striking, and permanently furious, he looks at Astaire as if he wants to devour him.
Abaś knows fear. He knows hunger. He knows how humans break.
Yet Astaire refuses to cower.

As sinister events unfold inside the decaying castle, something neither man expected begins to take shape.

Obsession. Desire. Tenderness.
Because in this castle, tenderness can be just as dangerous as violence.

Hurt, and bleed, and want, and fear.
Fear it all. Feel it all.

Awaken, My Love is a gay Gothic vampire horror romance about ruin, longing, and the dangerous tenderness of monsters. An atmospheric story of erotic horror, obsessive desire, morally complicated men, and literary prose you can chew on.
For readers who like their love stories messy, sensual, psychologically intense and a little fucked up.

Tropes:
- Vampire × mortal Dual POV
- Unconventional Protagonist
- Literary Prose
- Obsessive desire
- Sentient castle
- Morally gray characters
- Erotic horror
- Angst & yearning
- Hurt/comfort
-HEA

Explicit sexual content. Blood, violence, and dark emotional themes. CWs available on the author’s Carrd.