The Royal Blood Collection
Emmeline wants to be free of the cage that she sees as her future. A chance to choose her destiny rather than what the government has dictated. She can have that. All she has to do is trust a vampire.
All that Alaric wanted was a woman to sit by his side on the throne. A business transaction that would give him exactly what he wants and nothing more. She would be everything he needs to keep the enemy at a distance.
Together, they will create an illusion that meets the requirements for Alaric's claim to the throne. Cracks appear with lies and deception that will make the perfect plan crumble.
Captain Oliver Beaumont thinks that the woman before him is nothing more than a pretty distraction. A moment of warmth in the cold north of province four. He soon learns that Nisha Eldon is not what he expected her to be.
Nisha is not interested in fraternizing with the womanizing, smart-mouthed man. She's seen his type before, and she knows that he is just a one-way path to either a one-night stand or a broken heart.
When everything falls down around him, Oliver does the only thing that seems logical, he tries to make things right again. In doing so, he learns of a hidden threat against Nisha and her family.
She didn't want to depend on any man, but Nisha may not have a choice. Can Oliver live up to what is expected of him after years of training or will he fail because of his past?
Dahlia has been given a mission, one simple request from the benevolent king of province five. Find his uncle. Silas hasn't sent word to his family in over a month.
Finding Silas and convincing him to return will create a whole new world of pain for Dahlia. Faced with a stubborn man, she wrestles with the thought that this might be the one mission where she fails.
Believing that failure is not an option, Dahlia does the unthinkable. She breaks her cardinal rule, not realizing how much it will change her future.
A day is all that it takes for Otanawa's world to be turned upside down.
Her uncle sends her to province three with the mission to cross the bridge into the wilderness beyond Rivarno Diablis and make contact with the betas. Knowing the issues that she will face, Alaric sends a guardian to watch over Otanawa and ensure that she is kept safe.
Captain Harper is a soldier who lives by the rule book and believes he's faced with a pampered princess who thinks it will be a holiday with her lady-in-waiting at her beck and call.
Otanawa seeks the answers to the questions about her past, and in exposing the truth, she puts herself in danger. Her guardian vowed his life to protect Otanawa and does his duty to the king, keeping her safe. Little does he realize that the real problem has been hiding right in front of them, watching and waiting for the opportune time to strike.
Nava is one unimpressed princess.
In an effort to keep the Kronthelm leader happy and ensure that the plans for the future are the way that he wants them, her father, Alaric, agrees that Nava will marry the son of the leader.
They travel to the army base in province three to formalize the terms of the agreement and for Nava to meet Imren, the man who will be her husband.
Nava believes she'll be faced with a throwback to the caveman who can't speak her language. What she's faced with is a creature that is the opposite of everything she'd feared about her future.
When everything is set for her future, Alaric throws Nava another challenge. With Imren by her side, Nava will push beyond expectations and become more than just a pampered princess.
Claudia is just like her mother. Rather than sitting on a throne, this princess would rather be out in the world, living her life. And like her mother, she constantly puts herself in danger.
Her cousin Alaric has a mission, one that seems easy enough, but Claudia knows to be wary of the slayers. She has to find Henley Davenport, a slayer who the king wants dead.
Venturing into the halfways was once easy, but now it's dangerous. The humans that live there are protesting and causing problems, something that doesn't surprise Claudia given that a slayer is in their town.
It doesn't take Claudia long to find Henley, something she finds suspicious. The further she delves, the more Claudia realizes that something is wrong. When she learns the truth about Henley, Claudia has to do the one thing that she never dreamed of doing —go against her mission directive.
After seeing his father murdered by the king's army, Lenrith vows to make the vampire king pay for the crime. With the army invading his homeland, Lenrith's people are scattered, running for their lives.
In vampire city, Lenrith and his family blend into the crowd, pretending to be Kronthelm. He meets Elizabeth, forming a friendship with her that makes Lenrith realize that not all vampires are bad.
Elizabeth is about to visit the south for a holiday and offers to take Lenrith to see the vampire king when he opens the new bypass into the badlands, unaware of his true intention.
He's not the only one keeping a secret. Elizabeth opens herself to Lenrith, creating a crack in his plan for the vampire king's demise. When he learns the truth, Lenrith will question what he really wants. She will be his voice of reason, guiding him to a path that will give him peace in his mind and his heart.