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    Summary

    Rafael Barba arrives at Manhattan SVU in sharp suits, with sharper manners and enough courtroom arrogance to make detectives want to throw things at him before lunch. To the squad, he is their new ADA.

    Rafael has not had a pulse in centuries.

    He is Carpathian, an ancient hunter sworn to protect humanity from the vampires his own kind can become. After lifetimes without color, emotion, or hope, he has begun preparing for dawn, the final death chosen before a hunter turns monster.
    Then Nick Amaro walks into the squad room, and Rafael’s dead world catches fire.
    Nick is his lifemate, the one soul capable of dragging him back from the edge, but Nick Amaro is no one’s miracle waiting to be claimed. He is angry, suspicious, wounded, and unwilling to let destiny put a collar around his throat.
    When vampires begin stalking SVU victims, the squad is pulled into Rafael’s hidden world, where folklore has teeth and buried secrets bleed.
    Rafael swears he will take nothing Nick does not freely give.
    The vampire hunting them knows promises break easiest when love is bleeding.

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