Tamara Wyndham has spent her career studying the dead. She knows what blood can reveal, what a body can hide, and how easily fear can distort the truth.
Then a woman arrives on her autopsy table with almost no blood left in her body and no wound that can explain it.
And Elias Dominick walks into her morgue.
Dangerously controlled, impossible to read and far too interested in the pulse at Tamara's throat, Elias knows exactly what killed the woman. He also knows something Tamara doesn't: the victim was never the real target.
She was.
Elias has survived four centuries by refusing to belong to anyone. He has killed for survival, broken the bond of the vampire who made him, and stayed far away from anything powerful enough to become a weakness. Tamara should be no different.
Except her blood calls to him in a way no human's ever has.
And the more he tries to protect her, the harder she is to resist.
As bodies begin appearing around Chicago, each connected to Tamara's forgotten bloodline, the world she trusts starts breaking apart. Vampires hide beneath the city. Shifters guard ancient territory. Witches whisper about forbidden bonds, erased histories and something older than all of them waking in the dark.
Soon Tamara discovers that Elias's hunger is only part of the danger.
Because blood between them can create a bond powerful enough to defy the laws of the supernatural world. A bond the Council would kill to stop.
And someone has been waiting centuries for them to form it.
Every secret leads back to Tamara's family. Every death brings the hidden enemy closer. And the man she should fear most may be the only one willing to destroy everything to keep her alive.
But when desire becomes blood, and blood becomes a bond, Tamara and Elias will have to answer one question neither of them can escape:
Were they brought together by fate...
or by something that has been planning their meeting for centuries?
MARKED BY HER BLOOD is a dark, high-heat paranormal romance featuring a possessive centuries-old vampire, a fiercely independent forensic pathologist, forbidden blood bonds, touch-her-and-die obsession, hidden supernatural societies, vampires, shifters, witches, jealousy, danger, mystery and an ancient evil that should never have found them.
