The Midnight Confessional

Beneath a condemned hotel lies a secret bar where desperate people come for protection. Its owner, ancient vampire Aurel Vey, offers supernatural favors in exchange for blood or a secret that matters. When vampire hunter Nell Rusk enters the bar while searching for her missing brother, she begins to uncover a much larger conspiracy linking the sanctuary, the city’s hidden vampire order, and a crime Aurel has kept buried for twenty-seven years. As new victims arrive each night, Aurel and Nell are forced into an uneasy alliance where every bargain has a cost, every secret changes the balance of power, and protection can become another form of captivity.