Melissa Kendall

After 10 years of searching for a cure to the panic attacks that have kept him trapped in a remote Scottish castle, Marcus Deville, the Earl of Kingsberry, struggles to establish dominance and maintain the emotional distance necessary to keep his vampire siblings from killing each other.

Plagued by guilt after escaping her impoverished childhood, Fontaine Shepherd, the Dowager Lady Kerry, uses her position on the board of a charitable foundation to relocate starving orphans—until contact with the office is lost.

She taught him about pleasure. He taught her about love.

After fifty wearisome years of searching for his fated mate, vampire Cordon Shaw, Viscount Grayson, compiles a list of activities to complete before the lack of a mating bond kills him. In his pursuit of some sense of satisfaction, he stumbles upon a gorgeous woman who rebuffs his advances—and...