House of the Rising Sun
An urban fantasy set in New Orleans where vampires hide in plain sight among the living. A paranormal hunter uncovers a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of the city's old power structures. She must forge dangerous alliances in a city built on secrets.
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New Orleans is the City of Eternal Night, the one place on earth where vampires can walk in daylight, which is exactly why the fae have spent centuries keeping them out. When the bloodsuckers slip back into the city, that old peace starts to crack. Augustine, a carefree fae playboy who has spent his life dodging responsibility, gets dragged into the fight, and so does Harlow, a woman who came to New Orleans looking for answers about the father she never knew. Both of them carry fae blood they have tried to ignore. The city stops giving them that choice.
Vampire violence and blood, character death, grief, an absent-parent storyline.
One for urban fantasy readers first, romance readers second. If you like fae politics grounded in a recognizable modern city, with vampires as an actual threat rather than love interests, this delivers. Fans of Kristen Painter's House of Comarre series will recognize her style. Skip it if you want a central romance with high heat; the mystery and the city carry this one.
Book 1 of Kristen Painter's Crescent City trilogy from 2014, no relation to Sarah J. Maas's later series with the same name. Three books total, all released, so the full arc is complete.
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