A Taste for Disaster: An Accidental Elixir & A Lethal Allergy

Vampire heir Cassian Virelli has survived centuries of politics, hunger, and carefully managed cold. Then his body betrays him. Human blood, the one thing he was built to need, becomes poison. Eleven days of starvation later, pride is all that is keeping him upright.

Food scientist Lila has a lab that glows at two in the morning, a grant hanging by a thread, and a habit of staying late with formulas that should not work. One unstable batch turns gold. One desperate stranger drinks it. For the first time in weeks, Cassian can stand without wanting to put his fist through a wall.

They strike a deal. She refines the elixir. He funds the lab and keeps vampire politics off her door. Professional distance lasts about as long as the first successful sip. Banter turns sharp. Chemistry turns reckless. A late-night test against a lab bench blows the protocol apart.

Then the leaks start. A photograph of her window. A rival cousin with a smile like jewelry. An old academic enemy who thinks her work looks better with his name on it. Clan elders want the recipe without the cook. Lila knows how disappearing acts work. Cassian knows how tasteful funerals work. Neither is willing to let the other become a caption.

He cannot drink blood. She will not be a secret in a pretty penthouse. Together they have a formula that holds, a house that wants him hungry, and a want neither of them scheduled.

What happens when the one thing that saves a dying immortal is the mortal woman his world is built to erase?

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Centuries of existence and nobody warned them about this.

Pricking His Interest follows brooding immortals who genuinely believed they'd seen everything, until one mortal, or one completely ridiculous disaster, showed up and started wrecking their schedules, their stake-free plans, and their carefully maintained cold hearts.

Sharp banter, supernatural mishaps, and toe-curling steam in every standalone. Fangs clash. Chaos reigns. And falling in love turns out to be the one hazard nobody saw coming in several hundred years of careful avoidance.

The undead side of hilarious, sizzling romance is waiting.

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E-bog: 9. september 2026