The Dark Heroine: Dinner with a Vampire

The Dark Heroine: Dinner with a Vampire
Abigail Gibbs

The addictive, enthralling debut by online sensation Abigail Gibbs. The sexiest romance you’ll read this year.One moment can change your life forever…For Violet Lee, a chance encounter on a darkened street draws her into a world beyond her wildest imaginings, a timeless place of vast elegance and immeasurable wealth – of beautiful mansions and lavish parties – where a decadent group of friends live for pleasure alone. A place from which there is no escape… no matter how hard Violet tries.Yet all the riches in the world can’t mask the darkness that lies beneath the gilded surface, embodied in the charismatic but dangerous Kaspar Varn.Violet and Kaspar surrender to a passion that transcends their separate worlds – but it’s a passion that comes at a price.As featured on BBC Breakfast, Sky News, Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail Online, Huffington Post and Sugarscape.

Author’s Extended Edition

For wattpad.com.

To the team for providing a place to share.

To each and every member who read, voted, nagged and criticized. You shaped this story.

To Joanne and Terran, and lastly, to Soraya. You reached out to a child across the world and gave her the encouragement she needed. You started this journey.

O Rose, thou art sick!

The invisible worm

That flies in the night,

In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

– The Sick Rose, William Blake

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u722b51a3-9629-5ac6-b6ca-942a641a6be2)

Dedication (#uafbdb1fe-c73c-5c70-bf34-c3b89f7afbe6)

Epigraph (#u09b8281a-bb62-5d52-bb65-14a64b1182fa)

Introduction to the Author’s Extended Edition (#udde99f5c-df02-5189-9c91-4a3464e2a104)

Chapter One: Violet (#ub3c6ce59-815e-593d-8032-39faa418d5fb)

Chapter Two: Violet (#udfd20818-cfb2-5a10-8a91-2a6c3e2dcbe5)

Chapter Three: Violet (#ubd90a4e3-ecb2-5eae-8695-0b5d4c4a2892)

Chapter Four: Kaspar (#u40a44546-7628-52d0-afb7-5be62d1d851c)

Chapter Five: Violet (#u4f45049a-e538-5ed9-8817-d3fefa6d3507)

Chapter Six: Violet (#u5975d29e-6746-5146-944c-4c67a3793912)

Chapter Seven: Kaspar (#ue40961a1-5e78-5bd6-b210-68dd08fdc11e)

Chapter Eight: Violet (#u41bc3b3c-45a0-5577-9d3a-d828faa35747)

Chapter Nine: Violet (#ud62c97c2-67a4-5a63-9104-7799c0156f64)

Chapter Ten: Violet (#u03000dee-c5c8-5792-9cb2-01c924ca34e0)

Chapter Eleven: Violet (#u76efe750-b7ca-54f6-9116-922da969ab75)

Chapter Twelve: Kaspar (#u36e809c8-02d9-522d-8ec3-5402acd3e09b)

Chapter Thirteen: Violet (#u7ffbf42e-3151-59e4-9193-23d81cb2feed)

Chapter Fourteen: Violet (#uf50f5910-f71e-543e-ac80-47968eb9f3ea)

Chapter Fifteen: Violet (#u612726d1-195d-5677-aa12-a9d0d5cdac3b)

Chapter Sixteen: Violet (#u1b04ae6d-18eb-5af4-a2d7-d8bc48a6260e)

Chapter Seventeen: Kaspar (#u702d8154-c1ae-5a16-b50d-77186f271557)

Chapter Eighteen: Violet (#ue645d088-83b6-53d6-ba2c-d8616e8aa647)

Chapter Nineteen: Violet (#ua151f9be-0a71-5959-96be-dc0d92589386)

Chapter Twenty: Violet (#u36341870-2ddf-537b-b952-d4f37405b236)

Chapter Twenty-One: Violet (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two: Violet (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three: Kaspar (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four: Violet (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Five: Kaspar (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Six: Violet (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Kaspar (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Violet (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Kaspar (#litres_trial_promo)