One More Century to Ask

Complete genre_vampire Romance vampire slow burn powerful fmc opposites attract he falls first ♥♥ AI-assisted story

Synopsis

Nika Bevk has brought ships into Trieste since 1613, and under the Anchor Law of the Roadstead — the port's vampire polity — she is owed one Asking per century: one mortal she may offer eternity, who then belongs to her forever. She let 1926 lapse and swore never to own anyone the way her maker owns her; then Nevio Cattarin, fourth-generation keeper of the Faro della Vittoria, finds her face in his great-grandfather's logbook and refuses to be afraid of her. When the Roadstead's harbormaster writes Nevio's name in the ledger to be Asked at dawn on the solstice, Nika learns that the lighthouse her keeper has been winding all his life is the ward over the stone that anchors every vampire in the port — and that saving him means renouncing forever the only power that could keep him.

Chapters 6 of 20 chapters free

1. 1 Two Seconds Slow Free
2. 2 Boarding Ladder Free
3. 3 One Winter Free
4. 4 The Cold Store Free
5. 5 Four Generations of Keepers Free
6. 6 Saltwater Free
7. 7 Day Watch Locked
8. 8 In Fresh Ink Locked
9. 9 Sixty Knots Locked
10. 10 1613 Locked
11. 11 Under the Foundation Locked
12. 12 The Gate Guard Locked
13. 13 The Survey Locked
14. 14 The Price List Locked
15. 15 Two Askings Locked
16. 16 The Anchor Stone Locked
17. 17 Re-Timing the Clockwork Locked
18. 18 Renunciation Locked
19. 19 The Beam Locked
20. 20 One More Century to Ask Locked