Marked
An interactive dark paranormal romance · with Lucian
One mouthful of your blood buys a vampire the sun. The King of this city had it on his lips and stopped — and now you have seven nights under his roof wearing his mark, and the only thing hiding you burns off every time he touches you.
Your choices shape how Lucian responds.
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- Love interest
- Lucian
- Genre
- Dark paranormal romance
- Length
- ~1½ hours
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About Marked
One mouthful of your blood buys a vampire the sun. The King of this city had it on his lips — and stopped.
Now you have seven nights under Lucian's roof, wearing his mark. Whatever keeps you hidden burns away a little more every time his hand finds your skin.
And his hand keeps finding your skin.
He knows exactly what you are. He stopped once. Seven nights is a very long time to ask a king to keep stopping.
“One mouthful of you buys me the sun. I stopped. I am still stopping. Come back.”
A taste of the story
From Chapter 1
He crosses the room — I do not see the middle of the movement, only the start and the end of it — and takes the folder out of my jacket with two fingers.
And stops.
His eyes have found my hand. The papercut. The one bead of red.
LUCIAN
“You’re bleeding on my ledgers.”
“You have bigger problems than—”
He takes my wrist.
Not roughly. That is the strange thing. Precisely, the way you would handle evidence — and lifts it, and for one impossible second the King of this city presses his lips to the cut on my finger.
Vampire bookkeeping, I assume. A taste tells them everything — health, fear, lies.
Except that is not what happens.
What happens is that he stops moving. Completely. The stillness of held breath, of lightning between the flash and the sound. And when his eyes come back up to mine there is something in them that was not there before — something that looks, absurdly, on the face of the most feared creature in the city, like shock.
LUCIAN
“Impossible.”
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Questions
Is Marked free to read?
Yes. Chapter 1 of Marked is free, and Chapters 1–3 are free for 2 stories a month with a free account. To finish it, unlock the whole story for $2.99 — one payment, yours to keep, and if you want every story, you can read them all FREE for 7 days, then $9.99 a month.
Who is the love interest in Marked?
Lucian. Marked is an interactive dark paranormal romance where your choices shape what happens with Lucian, and the story remembers every one.
What kind of story is Marked?
An interactive dark paranormal romance built on he falls first, protective hero and forced proximity. You make the choices, and later chapters remember them.
How long is Marked?
About 1½ hours of reading, in chapters you can read at your own pace.