A Year of Small Deaths: A Gothic Vampire Romance, (Paperback)

<b>She answered an advertisement no dying woman should have answered.</b> <p><i>Margot Aubin has been dying since she was nineteen, and she made her peace with it long ago-until she climbs a frozen lawn and rings the bell of a house full of stopped clocks.</i> </p><p>Adriel has been waiting in that house for four hundred years. He is one of the cold kind, a creature who starves himself to keep the last of his warmth alive, and his blood can buy her time: one dose, one more year of life. But the bargain is crueler than mercy. Every year his blood gives her is a year stolen from the long life she might have had-twelve doses, twelve years, and then nothing at all. </p><p>She takes it anyway. She has never once been afraid to die. </p><p>What neither of them bargains for is the thaw. As the doses run down and an older, colder House comes hunting the heretic who dared to keep a mortal warm, Margot and Adriel discover there may be one way out of the bargain that doesn't end in a grave-a cure that would cost him the four centuries he has hoarded against the dark, and ask her to spend her last year not being saved, but saving him. </p><p>To survive it, the monster who has never let anyone close will have to do the one thing four hundred years of cold made impossible. </p><p>He will have to let himself be held. </p><p><i>The cold keeps everything. That is its mercy and its cruelty. They chose the thaw.</i> </p><p>A standalone gothic vampire romance with a series hook-the first of the Houses of Blood-Debt. Slow burn, dual POV, an immortal hero and a fearless dying heroine, a found family in a frozen house, and an ending paid for in full. </p><p><b>Perfect for readers who love: </b> atmospheric gothic romance, slow-burn forbidden love, tortured immortal heroes, morally tender monsters, and stories where the cost of love is real. </p><p><i>For adult readers. Contains mature themes and one consensual on-page intimate scene.</i></p>

• A Year of Small Deaths: A Gothic Vampire Romance, (Paperback)
• Author: Nicole Verri
• ISBN: 9798180468932
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-07
• Page Count: 582