She crossed the river for a dead man who wanted to live again.
Blood Across the River is a dark adult vampire romance about a Queens blood-bank tech, a starving vampire with dangerous restraint, and the island door that should have stayed sealed.
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The blood bank was supposed to save the living.
Renata Salas works nights in transfusion services at a Queens hospital. She is calm, precise, practical, and used to managing the inventory of life itself. Then Mateo Cruz appears on the loading dock. He is dead. He is starving. He casts no reflection. And he knows Renata’s name.
Mateo was once a paramedic. Now he is one of Sable’s abandoned vampires, dropped after the events under Yankee Stadium. He comes to the hospital for clean blood, expecting to die without hurting anyone.
Renata should call security. Instead, she asks him what he needs.
He was made into a weapon. She sees the man inside it.
- Mateo Cruz was once a paramedic. Now he is a starving vampire trying not to become a monster.
- Renata gives him blood, terms, and a reason to fight the hunger.
- Their romance is built on consent, restraint, hunger, trust, and control.
- But something older than Sable may have sent him to her door.
Across the river, the island is waking.
Roosevelt Island looks harmless from a distance. Beneath the old stone and the river wind, something has been knocking. The old quarantine hospital remembers the nameless dead. And behind the seal, Severin has waited a hundred years for a Salas woman to cross the water.
Blood Across the River is an adult paranormal romance. It includes explicit on-page intimacy, biting, blood-sharing, consensual blood play, vampire violence, grief, and dark supernatural danger. Every intimate act is consensual.