Unspooling: Secrets of the Patchwork Vampire

Sophia Raliche was just trying to coast.

An UnHoused, unaffiliated, and happily insignificant quarter-vampire, she patched her blood cravings with her late parents’ experimental tech and kept her head down. Vampire politics? Not her scene. House rituals? Hell no.

The six ruling vampire Houses ran human society behind boardrooms and biotech labs, but Sophia wasn’t part of that world.

Until the massacre.

A blood bank near her university erupts in ritual carnage – bodies drained, glyphs scorched into the walls in a forbidden, long-dead language. And suddenly, Sophia becomes a problem the Houses can’t ignore.

Because she can see the ancient glyphs. No one else can.

Now hunted, analysed, and paraded as a potential asset, Sophia is dragged into a world of sanctioned feeds, volatile “spinning” dens, and gala floors soaked in blood and old grudges. Every House wants her bloodline, some for science, some for legacy, some just to erase it.

The only one who might understand what’s happening is Adam, a near-feral vampire who’s barely keeping it together.

He’s not her handler. He’s not her hero.

But he’s the only one left who doesn’t flinch when she bleeds.