Filthy Rich Vampires: Second Rite by Geneva Lee

He wore darkness like a second skin—and she still remembers how effortlessly it fit him.

Thea Melbourne’s heart is in ruins. A month after her life shattered, she’s doing everything she can to hold herself together. Her mother lies unresponsive in a hospital bed, the medical bills are suffocating, and Thea is pawning off the remnants of a world she never asked to join. Her friends tiptoe around her like she’s fragile glass.

Then Julian Rousseaux appears in her doorway—beautiful, deadly, and the last person she ever wanted to see—and everything fractures all over again. Because the vampire who broke her heart has been keeping a devastating truth: he didn’t leave her for lack of love. He left to save her life.

Julian has been drowning in the aftermath of his sacrifice. To protect Thea, he pushed her away—and now he’s left with nothing but the taste of regret and a Council determined to keep them apart. But when new threats close in and Thea’s safety hangs by a thread, Julian faces an impossible choice: obey the Council’s command to stay away, or defy them completely and fight for the woman he can’t forget.

Winning her back means exposing the darkest corners of his past, confronting the monster he’s always feared becoming, and resisting the primal urge to claim Thea as his mate once and for all. And Thea, still wounded and wary, refuses to let him off easily.

Desire still burns between them—wild, consuming, and dangerous. But so do the forces determined to tear them apart.

Return to the intoxicating world of Filthy Rich Vampires with Second Rite, a seductive, thrilling continuation of Julian and Thea’s tumultuous love story—where heartbreak, hunger, and forbidden longing collide.