First Light
chaotic-bestie
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Book One of the Soulfire Series
Fledgling vampire, Sloane Briallen, has spent the past two years pretending that she was never human and never had a family. But when a desperate call from an old friend brings her back home, she finds two members of their small chosen family missing, and the parents of two more slaughtered. Pulled back into her old ways of dodging magics, avoiding cops, and keeping her family safe, Sloane searches Phoenix for the missing. And unbeknownst to her, there's a larger force at play, manipulating her hand.
Seasoned vampire, Karhi Emelyn, just wants to spend his eternity undisturbed, maybe with a cocktail. As it is, he has to make sure his fledgling, Sloane, doesn't kill herself forgetting to drink blood or getting into fights with people much deadlier than herself. When Sloane disappears and Karhi is called to Phoenix, he finds himself in his own fight with someone much deadlier than himself. His sire, Ilona, wants Sloane's head, and Karhi is in a race against time to find Sloane to save himself, and maybe even save her.
Sloane and Karhi are oil and water, but as they come to understand the trauma and loneliness that built each of them, they develop a bond that goes beyond their fledgling-sire relationship. First Light is an underdog story heavily focused on the intrigue of the mystery as well as the intrigue of healing from a broken past.
Note: content (and author) is anticapitalist, anticop, antifascist, BIPOC-inclusive, and queer-inclusive. All potentially triggering content has associated trigger/content warnings.
This is the complete first book in a series. The series is ongoing but there is a lot of content (trust me).