The Shadow Bride

Célie Tremblay dies while trying to save the people she loves, and she wakes as a vampire. Michal, the vampire king, turned her. Sunlight is now off limits, she hears the heartbeats of her friends, and she craves their blood.

The dead are stirring too. Her sister Filippa has returned as a shadow of her former self, and other revenants climb out of their graves with revenge in mind.

An ancient force has been woken as well, and he is coming for Célie to take her as his bride. The veil between life and death has torn, and only repairing it will restore the balance.

That task means working beside Michal, a vampire she despises and still cannot stop being drawn to. The pairing is enemies-to-lovers, set against a gothic backdrop.

This is the second and final book of the Scarlet Veil duology, a young adult vampire romantasy. It takes place in the world of Shelby Mahurin's Serpent & Dove series and leans on the first book, so it reads best after it. Célie must decide whether to trust the one who made her before the ancient claimant reaches her.