The Blood Covenant

For three books, Elias Voss has wondered whether he could become a vampire.
Now he may finally have to decide whether he wants to.

Homicide detective Elias Voss and the immortal Vivienne Vale have survived murderers, vampire conspiracies, forbidden blood experiments, and a supernatural bond neither of them fully understands.

But the quickening between them is changing.

What began with warmth and a heartbeat has become something far more intimate. Elias and Vivienne can now feel echoes of each other's desire, fear, pleasure, and love-and their connection is approaching a boundary neither knows whether they
should cross.

Then the North Atlantic Council summons them to Montreal.

Hidden in its archives is the Blood Covenant, an ancient agreement created to protect mortals from being transformed through fear, grief, coercion, or desperation. But someone has rewritten those protections into something else entirely.

A murdered archivist.
Stolen blood.
Forged consent.
A secret project designed to preserve supernatural bonds through transformation.
And a Covenant already prepared in Elias and Vivienne's names-before either of them agreed to anything.

As Elias investigates, he uncovers the stories of mortals who faced the same impossible question he has avoided for months.

Some chose immortality. Some refused it. Some discovered that forever could cost far more than death.

For the first time, Elias begins to imagine vampirism not simply as a way to avoid losing Vivienne-but as a life he might actually want.

More time.
More years with the woman he loves.
A future without age separating them.

But choosing immortality would mean surrendering the human life that made him who he is: his work, his family, his partnership with Mara Quinn, and the certainty that his life belongs entirely to him.

And Vivienne faces an equally painful truth. She wants Elias forever. She also loves him enough to let him choose a future that may eventually take him away from her.

With a killer hiding inside the machinery of the Covenant and an old experiment threatening to turn love itself into evidence of consent, Elias and Vivienne must protect the one thing their enemies-and their allies-keep trying to define for them: choice.

Because forever may be tempting.
Love may make sacrifice feel noble.
But a promise only means something when the person making it is free to say no.

The Blood Covenant is Book Four of The Mortal Vein Mysteries, a paranormal romantic-suspense series of supernatural murder, vampire secrets, dangerous intimacy, and a love affair caught between mortality and forever.