A woman rediscovering herself…

After my husband left, all I wanted was to find myself again. Turns out that’s a lot easier said than done when my chronic pain has me canceling plans and everything I try reminds me of my inadequacies.

Things only get worse when my attempt at exploring submission is a total disaster. But hope comes in the form of my stoic, stunning vampire friend, Blair. She offers to teach me, giving me a space to safely explore a side of myself I’ve kept locked away. 

It’s meant to be platonic. Just one friend helping another. So then why can’t I stop imagining what it would be like to take things further?

A vampire losing control…

I’ve spent the past ten years building a life where I’m in control. I swore I’d never go back to being the pathetic, emotional girl I was before I was turned.

Then Grace showed up. 

I knew from the moment we met she’d be a problem. My monster craves her in a way that terrifies me, and her humor and beauty pierce through the cracks in my carefully crafted, cold facade. Yet keeping my distance would ruin one of the few friendships I have.

How do I shore up the crumbling barriers around my heart before I end up more broken and alone than I was the night I became a vampire?

Afterglow is a spicy, slow burn sapphic romance featuring a jaded, lonely vampire FMC and a bubbly, anxious human FMC.

Afterglow is Book 2 in the Monsters of Moonvale series, however, it can be read as a standalone.(The characters are introduced in Behold Her so I recommend reading it first if you’re planning on reading both books)

TROPES/Tags

  • Dark(ish) Sapphic Romance

  • Vampire x Human

  • Mutual Pining

  • Slow Burn

  • Chronic Pain Rep

  • Kink Lessons

  • Bi Awakening

  • Healing Blood

  • Unlearning CompHet

  • Discussion and explicit depictions of sex and kink-based activities including D/s dynamics, biting, mild blood play (there’s a vampire, so duh), bondage, flogging, shibari, orgasm denial, edging, praise, service, mild humiliation, and spitting.

    Throughout the book, there are references to chronic pain, queer identity and experiences, grief and loss, sex work, religious trauma, and trauma and shame from past relationships. 

    As this is a vampire romance, there are multiple depictions of blood and the consumption of blood (both MCs).

    There are brief depictions of dubious consent and sexual trauma from past partners, kink scenarios with partners other than their love interest (both MCs),  mentions of past violence, and mentions of infidelity (not MCs).

    Characters use profanity and explicit language throughout the book.

    Please note that the following additional content warnings include potential spoilers:

    :addiction (discussions about), anxiety (Grace), blood, cheating (Grace’s ex), chronic pain (Grace), compulsory heterosexuality (both MCs), death (discussion of death and dying) emotional abuse (both MCs’ past partners), intrusive thoughts (Blair), manipulation (Blair’s past partner), murder (Blair), sexual assault (Blair’s past partner), sexuality denial (Blair, past), substance use (Grace), trauma (both)