BETRAYAL MADE HIM A MONSTER. DUTY MADE HIM DEADLY.
Once, he served Rome. Now, he serves the dark.
Peo Satimus was a Praetorian Guard to the cruel Emperor Aurelian.
Now, he is something far less human, and far more dangerous.
A vampire officer in the Tempus Militibus, he hunts the monsters who slip through the cracks of the Fourth Dimension.
But in the city's red-light district, something ancient stirs.
Someone is murdering sex workers with ritualistic precision: preserving their bodies like sacred relics.
This isn't random. This isn't madness.
This is ritual.
As Peo investigates, ghosts of the empire haunt him: The Betrayals, bloodshed, and Rome that devoured his soul and called it glory.
Then he sees her.
A woman like a flame in the dark.
Beautiful. Human.
Forbidden.
The Tempus Militibus has many rules.
Love isn't one of them.
But love for the damned?
That is a curse wrapped in satin.
Tempus Mori... Time to Die.
Book Five in the hauntingly addictive Tempus Militibus series.
