Por trás da mordida: Um romance paranormal sombrio Livro 1: A série Velrath Trials

She was invited to donate her blood. She didn’t know it would awaken her hunger.

Celeste Crowhurst never imagined her life would unravel over an email.

An invitation arrives at 3:06 a.m.—anonymous, clinical, and impossibly specific. A month-long, fully paid medical residency at a private alpine institute, offered only to those with a rare blood anomaly that places her among 0.03% of the global population. The payment? Fifty thousand dollars.

Desperate, drowning in debt, and burdened by years of unexplained fatigue, Celeste says yes.

But Velrath is no ordinary institute. And Celeste is no ordinary donor.

Behind its velvet-draped halls and flickering candlelight, Velrath hides a secret older than science. Its staff wear crimson robes and speak in whispers. Their eyes linger too long. Their touch is too cool. And when night falls, the facility comes alive with shadows that move on their own.

Celeste’s blood isn’t just rare—it’s sacred. Coveted. Especially by Azriel Maroux: enigmatic, immortal, and bound by rules he’s about to break.

As days blur into nights and observation turns into obsession, Celeste is drawn deeper into a world where pleasure is a weapon, consent is ritual, and submission is far more than medical. Each encounter unravels her resistance. Each bite unlocks something ancient inside her—something Velrath didn’t expect.

Something hungry.

Torn between a dangerous longing and the fear that she’s becoming something else entirely, Celeste must decide: Is this a trial to survive… or a calling to surrender?

Dark. Sensual. Addictive. Beneath the Bite is a gothic paranormal vampire romance for fans of secret societies, seductive power dynamics, and heroines who burn to awaken.