Bite of Passage — Zoe Forward

What happens when fake turns dangerously real―and the line between forbidden and forever vanishes?  GemmaRuthless, hedonistic, mercenary, Skarde is unattainable.He's fictional. He's an on-screen assassin-for-hire vampire who can't be her ticket out of a lonely existence as a barely-making-ends-meet ER nurse, no matter how much she wishes it.Until…he speaks to her. And sucks her into his world. She shouldn't be in this medieval dark fantasy where she's hunted by a merciless ruling vampire society. They want to end her before she's bitten by her sexy vampire protector. But he's become her wildest, most dangerous dream.  SkardeHer untimely entrance into his life is a complication; she's quirky, eccentric, infuriating…Much to his chagrin, she's hotter than the sun that will burn him to ash.Her arrival in his life was foretold to trigger the downfall of his kind…and him.One bite will make her his queen of the night. That one taste of her blood will turn him into a monster with no hope for redemption. He's not sure how long he can resist.