検索キーワード： "Jessica Winter" ロマンチックサスペンス

For years, I existed alone. Fighting the urges, doing my best to stay good. Until Esclave 58 entered my life and I didn’t have to fight so hard. She makes me better, she makes me human, but then he arrives on my doorstep. He says he’s my half-brother.

Die junge Ruby Danes arbeitet als Sozialarbeiterin in einem New Yorker Frauenhaus. Niemand weiß, wie viel sie mit den Frauen verbindet, die dort Zuflucht suchen, und das muss auch so bleiben. Dann lernt sie auf ihrer morgendlichen Joggingrunde im Central Park einen Mann kennen. Jake Brooks sieht nicht nur gut aus, er weiß es auch. Viel mehr noch ist er aber einfühlsam und bringt Ruby zum Lachen. Je näher sie sich kommen, umso mehr rüttelt er an den Mauern um ihr Herz. Doch Rubys Glück ist nur von kurzer Dauer.

It only took one droplet of blood to forever change me. Her blood. The taste of it. The heat of it. I swallowed her down and devoured her. For a while, it was enough. My monster was content. I believed I’d found where I belonged. But now…that droplet is no longer enough. I want rivers of it. Oceans of it. I want the world dripping in red and I honestly don’t know who I’m hunting anymore. Her?

I knew what it felt like to reach rock bottom. To do things I could never repent. To want things I could never absolve. I’ve wanted to die for so long. I deserve to die for what I’ve done. But not until I finish this. Not until I atone. And so, I make a decision. A cascade of decisions that will bring about the end of my world. The darkness wants to be fed. So I’ll feed it. With blood.