When the Night Comes: A Vampire Detective Romance
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- When the Night Comes: A Vampire Detective Romance
- Author
- Ashcroft, Morgan
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798173882066
Now someone intends to find out whether that choice can survive death.
After everything homicide detective Elias Voss and the immortal Vivienne Vale have endured, they finally have something dangerously close to peace.
Elias is human because he chose to be.
Vivienne has accepted that one day she may lose him.
And the supernatural connection between them—the quickening—has become deeper than either believed possible, allowing them to share echoes of heartbeat, sensation, emotion, and even memory without surrendering the boundaries that make them two separate people.
Then a woman dies twice.
Dr. Lena Ormond is found dead in Grayhaven with evidence that she drowned, somehow lived long enough for her body to begin healing—and then died again.
Beside her is the symbol of an ancient rite Elias and Vivienne hoped never to need.
The Night Mercy.
Created long before modern vampire law, the Mercy was never intended to transform a mortal. It was meant to lend breath, warmth, and circulation to the dying—just long enough for ordinary medicine to save them or for the mortal to make their own choice.
But someone has been experimenting with it.
Someone who believes death is merely another biological threshold.
The investigation leads Elias to Dr. Andrew Voss, a disgraced physician from his own extended family who has spent years studying vampire blood, mortal-vein genetics, and the strange bond between Elias and Vivienne.
Andrew believes their connection has achieved something no experiment ever has:
full reciprocal presence.
And if that bond can carry sensation, memory, and identity between two living people, he believes it may be able to carry something across death itself.
Andrew doesn’t need Elias to volunteer.
He only needs Elias to reach the threshold.
As Grayhaven becomes the center of a deadly experiment, old enemies return with unexpected warnings, buried Night Mercy records reveal missing safeguards, and Elias and Vivienne discover that the greatest danger may not be starting the ancient rite.
It may be knowing when to let go.
Because the oldest surviving warning is terrifyingly simple:
When the mortal cannot answer, the immortal must remain among the living.
Do not follow the mortal into the dark to return them.
Elias has already decided what kind of life he wants.
Vivienne has already promised to honor that choice.
But promises are easiest to keep while the person you love is still breathing.
And when the night finally comes, saving a life may demand more than either of them ever intended to give.
When the Night Comes is the fifth and final book of The Mortal Vein Mysteries—a paranormal romantic-suspense series of supernatural murder, dangerous intimacy, vampire secrets, and a love story built on one question above all others: what does it mean to choose someone without owning their future?
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