Of Mercury and Mist : Crossed by Blood Book 2 A Dark Fantasy Romance

“I’m going to take your breath away.”

HER

One mistake—just one—and my life stopped belonging to me.

Now it belongs to him.

The man I’ve hated for ages.

Cruelly beautiful. Impossibly calm. The kind of man disasters apologize to.

He lived in my nightmares long after a fateful meeting.

But the real version is worse—because he’s not a dream I can wake from.

No matter where I go, he’s there.

Watching.

Waiting.

Collecting pieces of my life like trophies.

He meant to destroy me.

I meant to survive him.

Ipomoea was supposed to be a job, not a cage. Yet every corridor hums with secrets, and the darkness in that building has started answering when I speak.

The more he demands, the more dangerous I become.

If he wants a war, I will give him one he will never forget.

HIM

My plan was simple: make her pay.

Now I own her body and soul—and still I want more.

I despise dishonesty.

She is made of it.

And yet her scent lures me with its siren call.

I push her to the edge to remind myself I am in control.

Instead, she pushes back—and I imagine keeping her there for eternity.

In my world, punishment is permanent.

Termination is not a word—it is a promise etched in gold.

The correct thing would be to throw her to the wolves and listen to them feast.

But the thought of anyone touching what is mine makes the blood in me remember what it feels like to burn.

She cannot run from me.

I always get what I want.

In blood.

OF MERCURY AND MIST

Ashley stepped into Ipomoea believing she worked with ordinary monsters—ambitious executives, petty tyrants, polished liars. She was wrong. The company is a kingdom of vampires, demons, and creatures who wear human faces like borrowed masks.

Micha rules that kingdom with a patient cruelty. Accused of a crime she may not have committed, Ashley becomes his obsession, his captive, his favorite sin. Trust is a luxury neither of them can afford, and desire is a blade they keep handing to each other.

To survive, Ashley must decide what is worse—

the predators hunting her,

or the man who claims he is the only one keeping her alive.

Love, in a world like this, is simply a more intimate form of violence.

Tropes

Morally black, vengeance-driven MMC

Enemies to lovers

Captor / captive tension

Forced proximity

Touch-her-and-die

No cheating

Gothic vampire fantasy

HEA

Please read trigger warnings inside the book—your mental health matters.

A dark vampire fantasy romance. Second in interconnected standalones—Micha and Ashley’s story.