The world ended. Love didn't. And for one vampire, that is the most dangerous thing of all.

The complete Blood Brute series, all six books in one volume. A queer dark fantasy of survival, slow burn romance, captivity, grief, found family, and a centuries-old vampire learning, across twenty years and six books, to open his hands.

Rise of One — In the ruins of everything, a vampire named Rise tends his coven and waits. He has survived centuries by staying still, protecting Owl Court, protecting the humans within its walls, protecting Cypriot, the man he loves more than he will ever say aloud. But the dead walk now. Strangers breach the gates. And the Warwolves are closing in.

Fall of Two — After the fall of Owl Court, Rise wakes in a stone tower stripped of his magic, his coven scattered, Cypriot somewhere in the dark beyond his reach. A vampire bitten by a zombie brute is something new in the world. Something useful. But Rise has always been better at surviving than dying.

Ebb of Three — Free at last, Rise and Cypriot survive on wild mushrooms, forest hunts, and each other, barely. Then Iskar returns. And everything Rise thought he understood about love and loyalty begins to fracture. This one does not end gently. Nothing about this story does.

Strain of Four — There is no Cypriot anymore. There is only the road home. Hollowed out by grief and running on borrowed blood, Rise must cross the sea, face his coven, and reckon with who he has become in the ruins of everything he loved.

Myth of Five — Twenty years alone. Rise has given up quietly, in the way of someone who has lived long enough to know that wanting things is where the suffering starts. Then someone crosses the boundary he built to keep the world out. And Rise discovers that building a new family is not a betrayal of the one he lost.

On the Edge of Salt — Owl Court is whole. Rise has his coven. He should be content. He almost is. But someone is stealing the bodies of the dead blood brutes, and the old world has one final lesson left for Rise: you cannot protect the people you love by holding on.

For fans of Tamsyn Muir, V.E. Schwab, and slow-burn vampire romance with teeth.