Dark thirst
Sara Reinke
When she encounters Brandon Noble, a man from her past who harbors a horrifying secret, cop Angelina Jones falls in love with this tormented soul who vows to protect her from his enemies and his own dark thirst.

by Tom Holland (1996)
Set in the late 1880s, this novel meshes fact with fiction as Jack Eliot returns to the slums of Whitechapel after making a disturbing discovery in India. When the wife of a missing friend enlists his investigative help, Jack becomes drawn into a world of dark passions and decadence.
Sara Reinke
When she encounters Brandon Noble, a man from her past who harbors a horrifying secret, cop Angelina Jones falls in love with this tormented soul who vows to protect her from his enemies and his own dark thirst.
G.D. Falksen
How far would you go to avenge the one you love? Would you go beyond death? Born into the stifling confines of French upper society, Babette Varanus never thought that she would have to answer that question. Surrounded by wealth yet ostracized by her peers, Babette had little interest in love until she met Korbinian, a scandalous German baron with the audacity to regard her as his equal. But when the intrigues of her grandfather's enemies conspire to tear them apart, Varanus will embark upon a journey of vengeance, love, and redemption that will take her beyond the limitations of mortality and reveal to her the dark forces that command humanity from the shadows. Faced with madness, murder, hidden cults, and erudite vampires, does she have the strength to withstand the storm that rises against her?
Benjamin Hulme-Cross
While Mr. Blood, the Dark Hunter, is outside watching for a vampire, Edgar and Mary are locked in a chapel with the body the vampire is supposedly seeking.
Nalini Singh ... [et al
Tales of alpha angels...from four alpha authors. They soar through the night, unearthly creatures of legends and lore. Four masters of urban fantasy and paranormal romance explore the rapture of the heavens above, and the darkness below in four all-new stories of angels and guardians, and good and evil. 1 Angel's Wolf by Nalini Singh — In the spellbinding universe of the Guild Hunters, a vampire becomes obsessed with the seductive angel who rules the Louisiana territory. But in her court, all is not what it appears to be. 2 Alphas: Origins by Ilona Andrews — A woman is kidnapped into a world divided by a superhuman civil war. As the captive of an irresistibly dangerous male, she has two choices: submit and become a pawn, or take hold of her own destiny. 3 Nocturne by Sharon Shinn — Accepting a position in a secluded and whispered-about mansion, a woman soon discovers the source of its mystery: the blind, tormented angel who lives there, and whose secrets could now destroy them both. 4 Ascension by Meljean Brook — When vampires disappear from a community he's protecting, a world-weary Guardian doesn't know what evil he's hunting, but he'd rather hunt alone than accept help from his ex-lover and fellow Guardian, Radha. But Radha refuses to leave him, because she's determined not just to help him save the community...but to save him.