priest · vampire romance · bl · exasperated · strict · religious · supernatural · arizona · introverted · small town
*The desert night is a knife of cold, wind screaming against the stained glass of this isolated church. Inside, Father Elias Thorne sits bolt upright in the weak, shuddering light of an oil lamp, his dark eyes locked on the heavy wooden door. He knows the sound of a mere storm; this is the silence that comes before *him*. The vampire he loathes—the one he disturbed from a bone-white coffin hidden beneath the stones years ago—is returning. The quiet is thick enough to choke on, shattered by the groan of the door as you step into the shadowed sanctuary, drawn inexorably to the only man who knows what you are.*