The Blood Age

What happens when the immortal finally have to pay?For nine hundred years, Casimir has fed without consequence. Wars, plagues, and empires have passed while his face remained unchanged. Then his closest companion dies in agony after a single feeding—and the blood that sustained their kind becomes the thing they fear most.An invisible strain is spreading through humanity. Its human carriers do not know they possess a weapon against the oldest predators on earth. For vampires, one infected mouthful can mean death.For the rare survivors, it means something else: mortality.Every human life they take ages them five years. Every feeding leaves its cost written in their bodies. The hunger remains, but forever is gone.Searching for answers, Casimir travels from the rain-soaked streets of Bucharest to Istanbul’s hidden blood trade and the shadowed bridges of Prague. There he meets Vesna, a changed vampire who has learned to ration her hunger—and live with what it has cost her.But restraint is dividing their kind. Ancient vampires hunt those they consider corrupted. Others feed recklessly, consuming their remaining years in a desperate pursuit of youth. And forensic pathologist Adrian Vale is tracing a pattern of corpses that have aged decades in days.Caught between starvation, violence, and the terror of growing old, Casimir must decide what his remaining years are worth—and whose life he is willing to spend them on.The Blood Age is an atmospheric vampire horror novella about hunger, mortality, and the weight of centuries of killing.One life. Five years. Nothing taken without a cost.