Haunt Vault

Vampire Dominic Kaius is a cleaner, collecting humans others leave behind and bringing them into the Kaius haunt. When a mission triggers a connection between him and the woman he's sent to acquire, he's torn between his unyielding desire for her and his need to stay away. Waking in an unknown bed Molly Wagner faces two choices: death or Tender training. Opting for survival, Molly's thrust into vampire hierarchy, where women are schooled as courtesans. She finds solace with Dominic, but when the madness of their connection consumes him, the haunt sells her to an unvetted master. Embroiled in a battle to save his kind from extermination and driven by their connection, Dominic risks everything to save Molly before her new master destroys her body and soul. Can he balance his need to protect her and his responsibilities to his haunt mates or will they both become collateral damage in a rising war?

The Kaius vampires have long relied on Mikhail's empathic skills to help maintain the peace. Incessantly pummeled by the vibes of his bloodline, Mickey teeters along the narrow wall separating his emotions from those of his hauntmates. Preoccupied with preserving the harmony of the haunt, he's never been drawn to a woman...until now. Audra Verdi, a psychologist pulled from the bloodslave quarters, finds herself straddling a thin line herself-between the ingrained ranks dividing the vampires from the women in their sphere. She fights to survive and establish her place in a world she's determined to change. The sensitive vampire intrigues her mind...and her heart. When one of their own is captured by human authorities, Audra joins the hauntmates on a cross-country rescue mission. Will she find the real Mickey underneath all the swirling feelings or will the archaic customs of vampire society send her running?

For Bianca Schumann, a Former Tender and esteemed mediator in vampire society, straddling the human and vampire worlds has become infinitely more complicated as the two worlds prepare for battle. When she finds herself the target of Species Purifiers, she enlists the help of Jagger Kaius to exact revenge on the humans responsible for the destruction of her home. Jagger, bearing the cursed markings of his recent imprisonment, understands Bianca's desire for vengeance. But the longer he works alongside her, the more intrigued and confused he becomes by the cracks he sees in her practiced perfection. Burned by love in the past, he clings tightly to the Tender-Vampire dance, one of clear rules and expectations. Will Jagger be able to break through Bianca's Tender training and the walls around his heart, or will he step away as she chooses her side in the impending species war?

Vampire Louis Forbes is a loner, content to survive without ties, without a family, or the burden of another's life on his shoulders. But when the Kaius haunt asks him to prepare vampire outposts for evacuation into the sanctuary city of Denver, Louis reluctantly pushes aside his solitary ways to work alongside a partner. The youngest of his haunt, Jonathan Minks has lived a life of indulgence and camaraderie. A thrill-seeker prone to wanderlust, he jumps at the opportunity to assist the powerful Kaius haunt and joins Louis's mission. His curiosity about his partner morphs into desire as they travel the highways on his motorcycle, saving their species and dodging their enemies in a race against time. But when tragedy strikes in their society where bloodlines are everything and loners are discarded, Louis and Jonathan are forced to decide what family is and whether it's worth fighting for.

Soft-hearted medic Harper Strauss is a pro-vamp supporter living in the Canadian heart of the anti-vampire movement. With her mother-hen instincts and gentle disposition, the Kaius haunt deems her an ideal candidate to assist their leader's re-vamping and subsequent recovery. With the whispers of an ancient in his mind, Kaius awakens from his transformation under the firm hand of his sire, Boy, and the sweet voice of his caregiver, Harper. With a distant recollection of who he was and an emerging sense of who he is, Kaius is pushed to regain his control and master his skills under Boy's rigid guidance. Harper becomes a beacon of acceptance and tenderness amid the mounting pressures, but when his former sire arrives to claim what is hers, Kaius is forced to choose between who he was created to become and what he now lives to be.

Mute vampire Boy hides in the caves of the Nevada desert, emerging to kill the Deviants seeking the ancient blood in his veins. When he encounters the lone holdout in the evacuated basin, he's drawn to her beauty, her fire, and her heart which hears everything he can't say. Lexie Grace is too loud, too outspoken, and too much. Her deceased grandparents' home is the only place she felt love and she won't give it up easily. The lethal, silent, playful vamp lurking around her barn is the perfect partner in battle and in her bed. But the Deviants aren't hunting Boy. They're following him. And Boy has to choose between the ancient who claws at his soul and the woman who owns it.

Vampire Nichol Kaius is in control. The reluctant de facto leader of the powerful Kaius haunt, he lives by the clock and his lists, his computer and phone tethered to him night and day. Every purchase, every decision, every move passes through him for consideration, planning, and approval. With a sanctuary city in the works, public vampire executions to stop, ornery ancients to appease, and his species to save, he reaches for something-and someone-to take the edge off. But when the perfect storm of a forbidden substance and a forbidden woman clash with the secrets of his haunt on the battlefield, Nichol is forced to face his illusion of control, lay bare everything he is, and walk away from the only woman he's ever needed. But can he survive without her?