Emergence
Humanity knows vampires exist.
What they don’t know is how deep the corruption runs.
Former cop Deacon Cain now hunts the monsters he once arrested. As a member of Perimore Corporation’s elite Nox Squad, he tracks rogue vampires flooding the streets with venom—a seductive pheromone drug that turns humans into willing addicts.
Deacon has no sympathy for the Night Children—the Nox.
Until a mission goes wrong.
Hope Bradley is a Nox with dangerous secrets and a connection to Perimore that could shatter everything Deacon believes. She should be his prisoner. His enemy. His next collar.
Instead, she feels like fate.
Falling for her means betraying his oath, his squad, and the war he’s sworn to fight. But if Hope is telling the truth, the real monsters aren’t the vampires.
And loving her might cost him his humanity.
Note: Emergence originally released with another publisher and has been re-edited for publication.
- Series: Single Title
- Genre: Paranormal/Scifi
- Format: eBook, Print
- Language: English
- Publisher: No Box Books
- ISBN: 978-1642921557
- Length: Novella
- Release Date: April 23, 2026
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Despite what Hope had seen Deacon Cain do in the alley, she hadn’t anticipated his overwhelming strength and agility. A mistake.
His body slammed into hers with such speed and force she could do little but roll with him. He tried to knock her weapons out of her hands, but she held tight. As Hope fought for freedom, she realized she might have bitten off more than she could chew.
Suddenly another pair of hands wrestled her gun from her hand. She stabbed at Oscar with her knife but caught Cain instead, who swore and suddenly pinned her helplessly beneath him as if she were of no more consequence than a pesky fly.
Winded, she could only stare up at him in awe. “What the hell are you?”
No human could overpower a Nox Liberi. Not even Oscar with all his muscles could have overthrown a Nox with as little effort as Cain had shown.
“I’m the law. And you’re going to answer a few questions for me, sweetie. One way or the other.”
She glared at him, flashing a set of fangs. But the terror and anger she might have expected to see on Cain’s face didn’t come. Instead, hunger flashed in his gaze, a burning need soon reflected by the large body pinning hers to the ground.
She felt the push of his firm erection against her, and despite the knowledge that an attraction for this man was not only stupid but dangerous, her body melted under his.
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