He came to the island to restore an ancient portrait. He didn't expect to meet the man in the painting.

Adrian takes the commission at Mullwood House because he needs money, and space from a controlling ex boyfriend. After getting lost in that relationship, the solitude of the manor is exactly what he needs.

When a storm traps him there for one more night, he comes face to face with Edmund Wren - the cold and magnetic owner of the house, who bears a striking resemblance to the subject of the two-hundred-year-old portrait that Adrian was hired to restore.

Because the portrait isn't of Edmund's ancestor. It's Edmund, and he’s been kept hungry, isolated, and captive by a bloodline of guardians sworn to guard his prison. Clara may just be the last of them. She’s given up her entire life to maintain the cage her ancestor built, and she knows exactly what Edmund was before the binding contained him.

Adrian is a restorer. His job is to strip away what doesn't belong and reveal what was always underneath. But the more he uncovers, the harder it becomes to fear Edmund, and the harder it becomes to leave.

Freeing Edmund means defying Clara, confronting a past steeped in violence, and trusting a starving vampire with the one thing Adrian swore he'd never risk again. His heart.

The Vampire of Mullwood House is a spicy MM paranormal romance and the latest instalment in the Ashford After Dark series. Each book can be read as a standalone.

For readers who enjoy:

A touch-starved ancient vampire,

Forced proximity in a gothic manor,

“The monster chose me” trope, and

A guaranteed HEA.

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