THE HUNTER WHO STAYED

She had the shot. She is still working out why she
did not take it.

The Order of the Veil sent Esme Carrow north for 72 hours.
Find the Bloodveil Court. Confirm the location. Return.
She found it on day one.

On day two she had a clear line on Sebastien Noir
Lord of the Court, four hundred years old, the Order's
most wanted target. Clear line of sight. She is the
best hunter the Order has produced in thirty years.

She did not take the shot.

She filed a false report instead. No court found.
Bad intelligence. She is reading it on her Edinburgh
laptop when he knocks on her door.

He says: you filed a false report.
She says: yes.
He says: why.
She says: ask me again when I have worked it out.
He steps inside.

She has been doing this since she was twenty. She has
never filed a false report. She was trained to see his
kind as a category - threat assessments, elimination
priorities, targets. This training is the first thing
about to fail her.

Book 1 of The Bloodveil Chronicles - dark vampire
romance for readers who want a heroine whose competence
is genuine and a vampire lord who has had four hundred
years of complete control meeting the one thing in four
centuries he cannot manage. Available on Kindle Unlimited.