Ascent of Blood: The Red Veil Series, Book 1

1990, Cardiff, Wales. Vampire prince, Sebastian Pearce, has waited six hundred years for the right human mate. His own beloved mother was a mortal capable of carrying immortal offspring. While vampires no longer require live donors for sustenance, Mother Nature has played a cruel trick on them making breeders a rare commodity. As numbers in Sebastian's Imperial House continue to dwindle, his virgin bride eludes him. That is, until he happens upon a young woman searching for information about a sacred vampire text, the Book of Descent. Sebastian's desire for her is more potent than anything he's felt for another woman, but Everleigh Marbut isn't innocent; she's an American with a mind of her own. As Sebastian and Everleigh fight their attraction to each other, they don't realize they're being lured into a battle pitting medieval myth against the power of modern science to recreate life until it's too late.