The Cold Vault

She chose the Rite to hold the leverage. Now the Houses are collecting. Tessa chose the Rite with her eyes open. Immortality was a move - leverage, the only kind that holds in a world where blood is currency and the Houses own the mint. Now she is a young vampire inside House Maren, learning the price: the Still that takes her under at dawn, the hunger banked blood never satisfies, and the dreams of her sire that nobody warned her about. The city is splitting. The Old want the Quiet to hold...