Sink Your Teeth Into These Romantic Vampire Novels

Lucy gets to live out her full story in this lush, sapphic reimagining of Dracula. Told through Lucy’s diary entries, interviews, and the perspective of Iris, a present-day scion of the Godalming family, we see that being turned into a vampire was only the beginning for Lucy. After escaping the clutches of the men who supposedly cared for—and beheaded—her, Lucy ventures across the world and throughout history. But she’s still missing the one thing she’s always been searching for: selfless love. Will finding it finally sate her thirst for acceptance, or will it be her undoing?

Vampires and werewolves have always been enemies. The last attempt at a political alliance between the two ended in slaughter. Now Mercy Lark, the only daughter of a powerful Vampyre councilman, is set to wed werewolf alpha, Lowe Moreland. She fully expects the wedding to end horribly and probably in her own death. But Lowe actually seems hellbent on making this partnership work—and on keeping Mercy alive. Can a vampire really fall in love with a werewolf? Even if she does, can the werewolf really love her back?

How many times have you read a vampire book or watched a vampire TV show where everything would’ve been so much easier if the love triangle just turned into a polyamorous triad? Rin Chupeco answers everybody’s wishes in this fantasy love story about a vampire hunter, a vampire heiress, and her arrogant, vampire lord fiancé. Why choose which team you’re on when you could just cheer on all three?

In this friends-to-enemies-to-lovers vampire YA novel set during the Jazz Age, the once-human reapers and reaper hunters hold New York in a vice grip. Layla Quinn lost everything the night she was turned into a reaper, including her once-best friend and heir to a reaper hunting empire, Elise Saint. Now, when a terrible crime is pinned on Layla, the two are forced to together again. They might have been friends once, but there’s only hate left between them now. Hate isn’t the same as indifference, though, and as they get to know each other for a second time, it becomes clear that hate and love aren’t always at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Looking for a little slow-burn enemies to lovers in your vampire romance? Well, look no further. Kidan Adane loathes vampires, maybe more than anyone. But she also just inherited a house—and a place—at an elite vampire / human university known as Uxlay. Her house also comes inhabited by the very vampire she believes kidnapped her sister. Now all Kidan has to do is pretend to be a model student long enough to prove Susenyos Sagad is a murderer and kidnapper as well as a vampire. The fact that they’re bound to one another by blood? That doesn’t mean anything.