Philadelphia’s beloved Crimson Café is built on a chilling secret: its famous creamy drink owes everything to a young girl’s blood, drawn daily into a crystal cellar bowl. Seraphina escapes years of captivity under her foster parents and runs straight into the vampire Duke she once saved a decade ago. He has been searching for her ever since, but when she reaches out her wrist, a strange scent warns him that this reunion is anything but ordinary. With the Vampire Tribunal bringing torture, fire, and old rites into the hunt, Seraphina’s blood reveals a power to heal, resurrect, and stir the lingering spirit of the Progenitor. Even so, she cannot shake the feeling that she has been moved across someone else’s game. As she clashes with vampire nobles, the truth sharpens: a hidden mastermind has been controlling every step, fully aware of her bloodline, powers, and destiny. Is she destined to stay trapped as a pawn, or rise as the one who overturns the whole board?
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