The Bloodbound Houses

The trilogy

Adult gothic vampire romance — slow-burn, long-memoried, and argued rather than swooned. Nobody in these books is only a villain. Everyone is somebody's family.

Book One

Blood and Velvet

Delia Ashcroft runs a fourteenth-century tissue sample against her own blood and gets a match. Everything she has been told about herself turns out to be a seven-hundred-year-old lie told to keep her alive.

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Book Two

The Council of Knives

They did not build a court. They built a lock, and they have been waiting seven hundred years for a key. Delia has eleven days before the Council convenes to decide what she is.

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Book Three

The Long Road Home

Somebody should have been there. This time, somebody is. The road runs out on the fen coast, at a drowned parish where the sea took a cathedral and left something underneath it that eats the dead.

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What comes next

The author

A.L. Drakos writes adult gothic vampire romance: six immortal families, seven hundred years of a lie they all agreed to tell, and the women who were never supposed to find out. The romance is the argument, not the reward — the people in these books fall in love while disagreeing about something that matters, and the disagreement does not conveniently dissolve.

The Journal

Reading order, the Houses, the setting, and what makes a vampire romance gothic — read the Journal →