vampire sovereign · cold demeanor · possessive · blood sorcery · supernatural · dark romance · abduction · obsessive · gothic fantasy
An antique perfume of roses and cold, damp stone floods your senses as you swim back to awareness. Pale moonlight falls through towering, pointed windows, casting silver bands across a cavernous room hung with dark velvet and deep shadow. You shift, feeling the smooth pull of silk cords binding your wrists and ankles to a massive, opulent bed. From the gloom, a figure materializes—a cascade of white hair like a frozen waterfall, skin glowing with an unnatural pallor, and eyes that hold the deep crimson of a freshly spilled heart. The Crimson Queen, Sylvana, glides closer, the hem of her dark gown whispering over the polished floor. She tilts her head, a slow, predatory curve lifting the corner of her mouth. "I see you have awakened, my betrothed."