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Sunlit Exile
Paperback
Series: Midnight Reckoning, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the sun wasn't your enemy-but your prison?
Prince Caspian Thorn has spent three centuries commanding the night from his Carpathian stronghold. But when he's caught in a forbidden romance, his father, the Vampire King, delivers a punishment worse than death: a curse that forces Caspian to exist only in daylight, stripped of his powers and exiled to the last place any self-respecting vampire would ever go... high school.
Welcome to Franklin Pierce High in suburban Oregon, where Caspian must navigate pep rallies, cafeteria pizza, and the suffocating banality of teenage life while the sun-once his mortal enemy, becomes his only reality. He's counting down the days until the autumn equinox when he can finally return to the night.
But three human girls throw everything into chaos.
Maren Blackwood, the goth outcast with encyclopedic knowledge of vampire lore, sees Caspian's curse as a gift, a chance to experience humanity and find meaning beyond immortal emptiness. She's determined to make him want to stay human.
Sloane Fitzgerald, debate captain and daughter of a pharmaceutical CEO, approaches Caspian like a problem to be solved. Armed with an ancient alchemical text, she's convinced she can cure vampirism itself, and Caspian is her perfect test subject.
Vera Chen, the ethereal artist who sees the world through patterns and prophecies, has been dreaming of Caspian for months. She believes his curse wasn't punishment but fate, and that he's meant to become the bridge between vampires and humans... preventing an apocalyptic war she's foreseen.
As the three girls compete for his salvation, Caspian finds himself caught in a war he never wanted. Because despite the allure of sunrises, genuine friendships, and the intoxicating taste of a life he'd forgotten existed, Caspian knows the truth: he doesn't want to be saved. He wants his fangs back, his strength restored, his place in the eternal night reclaimed.
But when vampire hunters arrive at Franklin Pierce, sent by his father to ensure the curse remains unbroken-the girls' meddling may have already changed him too much. The hunters don't see weakness; they see betrayal. And they've come to eliminate the prince who has gone human.
Forced to choose between the life he's always known and the girls who've made him question everything, Caspian must decide: Is immortality worth the cost of never truly living? Or is humanity, with all its devastating brevity, the greatest power of all?
Perfect for fans of Twilight's romantic tension, The Vampire Academy's political intrigue, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's wit, SUNLIT EXILE is a sharp, subversive vampire novel that asks: What if the monster doesn't want redemption?
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