Blood Orchid

Madeira Cordaire has lived 500 years beneath the oppressive mantel of a curse. Not an easy thing for a Royal Vampire who is also the crowned prince to an island nation. On top of all that, he's been called back to the shadow-group nicknamed IPCIC to track down a murderer who is hunting down the most experienced assassins and those who can only die by specific means.

He wasn't at all prepared to meet his next mate, a woman who turns his world upside down while he tracks down a killer who is prepared to move heaven and earth to destroy him. And, then again, there's the curse to make his already insane life, pure hell.