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Blood Orange

by Karina Halle

🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate·spoiler·The Dracula Duet #1
Available on Kindle Unlimited

Why Read This?

You'll get a thrilling, addictive dose of dark passion and supernatural angst that leaves you desperate for the next book.

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle comes a dark and delicious Dracula retelling filled with secrets and lies, dangerous liaisons and a forbidden, student-teacher, second chance love story with a twist. "My heart will always find yours." Dahlia Abernathy has only known revenge. When her parents were killed at an early age by vampires, Dahlia spent the rest of her life under the thumb of the Witch's Guild being trained to kill them. Her latest mission sends her undercover to a prestigious music academy in Venice, Italy. Her goal? To kill Professor Valtu Aminoff, her teacher and the notorious vampire who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. But getting close to a dangerous vampire like Professor Aminoff is one thing. Falling for him is another. With Dahlia's appearance disguised under a glamor spell, Valtu has no idea that the woman who has become his new dark obsession is actually the reincarnation of the woman he loved and lost twice before. And Dahlia doesn't remember that the very man she has been sent to kill is the love of her life. Will their love come through and transcend time once again? Or are the fated lovers destined to let history repeat itself? Blood Orange is a modern-day Dracula retelling about the "real-life" Dracula that inspired Bram Stoker. This is a dark vampire romance with plenty of content warnings (please check interior of book for extensive list as it is +++++spicy) and while it is a spinoff of The Dark Eyes Duet, you do not need to read any other books before Blood Orange.

At a Glance

3.78 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingmedium burn

Top Tropes

dark romancehidden identityadventure romance

Mood

mysteriousintensedarkatmosphericbrooding

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

3.78 ★

Page Count

332 pages

Published

2022

Primary Genre

Dark Romance

Pairing

M/F

POV

Dual POV

Romance Pacing

Medium Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Standard

Narrator

Arthur Russell|Carolyn Eve

Narrator Count

Dual

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
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Mood & Vibe

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Spice Details 🌶️

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sexual assaultdeathkidnappingmurdertraumaviolencebloodcaptivitydubious consentstalking

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