Almost Eternal, (Paperback)

<p>In the shadowed jazz clubs of 1920s Harlem, Mathias Behrens - a disciplined banker haunted by the strict faith of his Pennsylvania farmboy youth - meets the enigmatic Coraline. One whirlwind week of passion ends in blood and betrayal: she turns him into a vampire and vanishes, leaving him alone with an eternity he never asked for.</p><p>For decades, Mathias wanders the night, wrestling with guilt, hunger, and the slow erosion of his soul. He learns restraint amid a world that hurtles from neon speakeasies to digital glare, but true damnation comes in 1950s New Orleans, where he falls desperately in love with Éléonore Vale - a radiant mortal artist whose golden warmth reminds him of everything sunlight once promised.</p><p>Their stolen nights burn with tenderness and terror. When mortality threatens to steal her forever, Mathias commits the unforgivable: in a moment of selfish, transcendent love, he takes her life and gives her eternity. She awakens in rage, fleeing into the darkness - and the long pursuit begins.</p><p>Across seventy years of separation, Mathias follows echoes of her through changing cities and centuries of silence: paintings that bear her unmistakable hand, whispers in the night, glimpses that vanish like smoke. He searches not knowing if she still hates him enough to survive, or if hatred has burned itself to ash. Every trace is a blade - proof she endures, proof she suffers, proof that the bond he forced upon her might be the one thing stronger than time itself.</p><p>Lush, introspective, and unflinchingly sensual, <i>Almost Eternal</i> is a gothic dark romance of monstrous desire, moral torment, and the exquisite agony of a love that refuses to die - even when it should.</p><p>Can the damned find forgiveness? Can love endure an eternity built on transgression?</p>

• Almost Eternal, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798279130740
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-12-19
• Page Count: 128