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Moonlit Reckoning
Paperback
Series: Midnight Reckoning, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He chose to be human. His father chose war.
Three months after Caspian walked away from his vampire bloodline, the life he fought for is already cracking. At the Franklin Pierce winter formal, surrounded by friends and the fragile comfort of normal, his abilities resurface with a vengeance. He saves a life. He also exposes himself. And in the shadows, something ancient has been waiting for exactly this moment.
Then the summons arrives, carried by a creature pulled straight from nightmare.
The Vampire King wants his son home. Return to the Carpathian Mountains and embrace your destiny, or Vera pays the price. It is not a request. It is a declaration of war, engineered to exploit the one weakness Caspian can never hide: the people he loves.
With Maren and Sloane refusing to let him face it alone, Caspian travels to Thornwood Castle, a gothic monstrosity ruled by blood, tradition, and political knives sharpened over centuries. The Blood Moon Festival is rising. Factions are circling. And every smiling face in the vampire court is calculating exactly how to use a half-blood prince who belongs to neither world.
Caspian is the King's perfect weapon. He just has to decide whether to become it.
As loyalties fracture and Vera's visions grow darker, Caspian is forced toward a choice with no clean answer. Save the people he loves, or stop the King forever. He cannot do both. And the cost of getting it wrong is not measured in one life. It is measured in two worlds.
What begins as one boy's struggle to claim his own identity detonates into a conflict no one can contain, where the line between human and monster blurs, where even the people guiding him may have their own agenda, and where survival demands becoming something entirely new.
The war between vampires and humans is ending. The war over everything else is just beginning.
Perfect for readers who love slow-burn paranormal romance, morally gray vampire courts, found-family loyalty, and coming-of-age stakes that hit like a punch. If you devoured Vampire Academy, A Shadow in the Ember, or House of Earth and Blood, Caspian's reckoning is waiting.
One-click now and step into the moonlight, before the Blood Moon rises.
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