Second rite
(Book)

"He wore darkness with such graceful ease... It's been a month since Thea Melbourne's world was turned upside down by a vampire. Now she's returned to San Francisco, where her mother lies in a coma. Struggling to return to the life she left behind, she's selling off her gifted couture to pay the bills, avoiding her concerned roommates, and trying to forget the vampire who started it all. Julian Rousseaux knows he should stay away from Thea. The problem is that she haunts his every thought, and when a new threat emerges, he faces the hardest choice he's made in 900 years: pray that she's safer without him or propose a new arrangment to keep her at his side. One that forces them to confront their own dark secrets while resisting the temptation to cross the line and claim each other...forever" --,Page 4 of cover.