Trapped in a haunted castle with my immortal enemy…

The Duke of the Damned is dead. When my coven is blamed for his murder, I'm desperate to clear their name before my sisters are arrested and I lose the only family I've ever known. But I only have one week to find the culprit, and the new heir to the duchy is none other than Detective Liam Rorick, my enigmatic ex-partner and archenemy.

It doesn't matter if Rorick is a competent investigator. He's the most cantankerous vampire I've ever had the displeasure of knowing. There's a reason I swore I'd never work with him again.

And yet that's exactly what I have to do.

Now we're trapped together in the malevolent castle he's just inherited, trading insults and fighting magical monsters to survive. I want nothing more than to go back to pretending he doesn't exist . . . but Rorick protects me like I'm precious and keeps looking at me like he regrets our past.

With each close call and each revealed clue, it becomes harder to fight our undeniable connection. But even the castle's hungriest creatures aren't as frightening as opening my heart to the one man capable of devouring it whole.

There's something terribly wrong with the Castleway Circus.

When mortals happen inside its big billowy tents, they don't always come out again, and the clown specters who haunt it won't leave me alone. My partner, Quiet, insists we go and investigate. I'd rather have my hands nailed to a moving train—better chance of surviving that as a vampire than whatever haunts the circus.

She believes the specters who persist in making our lives more difficult mean no harm. They just want our help, she says. I'm not convinced. I want to be of assistance when there's a case that needs solving, but I have my limits.

I won't give up Quiet.

Deep in my bones I know that's what's at stake. If we go there, if we surrender to those tents and the mysteries contained inside, I'll lose the only person I've ever loved. But Quiet is certain that if we avoid facing the consequences growing within, I might be forced to give her up anyway