The Vampire’s Private Detective — Ebook

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About The Vampire’s Private Detective

She hired me to solve a murder. Hers. In 1798.

Sloane Barrett has three rules for clients. No lies. No touching. No wanting them.

Lucasta Vale has all three in trouble before she sits down.

She owns Vesper, the most exclusive sapphic club in Saint Orison. She pays in antique gold. She has no pulse. And she wants Sloane to find out who murdered her in 1798.

One problem: Lucasta can’t remember the night she died. Somebody cut it out of her.

The memories are still in her blood. The only way to read them is for Sloane to offer a vein, and a vampire’s bite feels nothing like a blood test. Every taste gives them one more piece of that night, and tells them both a great deal more than the case requires.

Then a bartender loses three days and comes back with a wound in the same place as Lucasta’s scar. A retired nurse vanishes with a little violet bottle. And the trail runs straight to the one woman Lucasta has never told no: the doctor who made her.

Sloane was hired to find a killer. She’s about to find out what her client did for the hundred years after, and whether she can hold all of it.

The Vampire’s Private Detective is a high-heat sapphic vampire noir romance with a butch PI who notices everything, a 264-year-old ice queen who counts a pulse out loud, bites that have to be asked for in words, a cold case solved in blood and on paper, a control swap at the midpoint, a lot of on-page spice, and a guaranteed HEA. A complete story with no cliffhanger.

Why readers will love it

• A sapphic noir where the client is the murder victim, and she’s sitting in your office
• A butch private detective at 38 who reads everyone and gets read right back
• An immortal ice queen who asks before every bite and wants the answer in words
• Blood as the heat engine: every clue is paid for with a scene
• A power swap: she tops until the midpoint, then the detective takes her apart
• A villain who is never shrill and never entirely wrong

Ebook edition details

Format: Digital EPUB ebook (not a paperback or audiobook). Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno. Audience: Adults 18+.

Content notes

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes, including a strap-on and a semi-public scene), erotic biting and blood drinking, consensual power exchange, non-consensual memory removal and the medical confinement of women by an antagonist, needles, an on-page stabbing and death, coercive control in a past relationship, historical exploitation of vulnerable women including a pregnant seventeen-year-old (not sexual), abduction, drowning peril, and strong language. All characters participating in explicit sexual scenes are adults. Intended for readers 18+.

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