The Vampire's Borrowed Heart

In the suffocating humidity of the French Quarter, Dr. Maren Okafor lives by the steady rhythm of a beating heart. As a brilliant cardiac surgeon, she believes in the science of life and the finality of death. But when she is coerced into a high-stakes, off-the-books surgery behind the iron gates of the mysterious Devereaux estate, the line between science and nightmare blurs. Her patient is Aurelian Devereaux, a man who has outlived empires and walks in the shadows of New Orleans’ elite. He is violent, possessive, and impossibly ancient—and he claims they are bound by a history written in blood. When he wakes, he doesn’t thank her; he hunts her. To Aurelian, Maren isn’t just a surgeon; she is a soul he has been chasing through centuries of reincarnation. Now, trapped in his gilded cage of a mansion and hunted by his enemies, Maren must confront a terrifying truth: her life was never her own. She belongs to the vampire who stole her past, and he has no intention of letting her survive