The story
The café's famous drink is made with her blood.
Everyone in Philadelphia loves the creamy house drink at the Crimson Café. The secret isn't milk. It's blood, taken every day from Seraphina, a girl her foster parents have held prisoner for years. When she finally breaks free, she runs straight into a vampire Duke. Ten years ago her blood saved his life, and he's been looking for her ever since. But when she holds out her wrist to him, something in her scent makes him go cold. The Vampire Tribunal hunts them down, with torture, burning pyres and old rituals. Seraphina's blood can heal, bring back the dead and stir the lingering spirit of the Progenitor. Still, she can't shake the feeling that someone is moving her around a chessboard. And she's right. A hidden mastermind lured her in, someone who knows her bloodline, her powers and the fate laid out for her. Is she the most valuable piece on the board, or the one who flips it over?