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Vigilantia
Book One of the Umbral Heir Trilogy
Vigilantia precedes hunger.
This is a Draft Two of Vigilantia - a refined and carefully edited version of the story.
While future editions may continue to evolve, this draft reflects the tone, structure, and emotional arc as it is meant to be experienced.
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Vlad Valeris has one year left before everything changes.
Living within the walls of Blackthorn Castle, Vlad exists in the fragile space between what he is - and what he is destined to become. His eighteenth birthday will awaken the vampire bloodline he has spent his life holding at bay.
Until then, he is determined to live as normally as possible.
To attend school.
To form human connections.
To cling to the last pieces of a life not yet lost.
But restraint has a cost.
Hunters are drawing closer.
Old secrets are resurfacing.
And something deep within Vlad is beginning to stir - a power that does not respond to desire, but to discipline... and to pain.
As the boundary between humanity and instinct begins to thin, Vlad must confront a question no prophecy can answer:
When the darkness comes, will vigilance be enough?
A gothic vampire novel for readers who grew up with the genre - and are ready for something sharper, quieter, and more dangerous.