When Blood Runs Red (Empire of Blood and Greed #1)

In Eclipsera, blood is power—but greed holds the blade.

Stored in rubies and engineered into the technology that keeps the city running, magic has made Eclipsera glitter. But when a laboratory explosion kills Aria and Luna Ellis's parents, the sisters inherit more than one of the city's most powerful names. They inherit secrets someone was willing to kill for.

Aria has spent years building a career inside Darkmoor Industries, determined to be more than another privileged heir. Now the research her parents left behind is leading her somewhere far darker: illegal experimentation, altered creatures and evidence that the science behind Eclipsera's magic has crossed lines no one was meant to survive. The deeper she digs, the more dangerous the people around her become. The truth would be easier to survive if Aria’s heart weren’t already tangled with two of the families she has every reason to distrust: Dominic Blackwood, the man she loves recklessly, and Rowe Darkmoor, the almost-love who never stopped knowing her too well.

Luna chooses a different path through their grief. Drawn toward the very world Aria is beginning to question, she finds herself increasingly entangled with Alexander Darkmoor: brilliant, ruthless and far too willing to indulge the ambition everyone else has tried to tame. His attention could give Luna everything she has ever wanted. But being wanted by a man as powerful as Alexander Darkmoor comes with its own kind of danger.

As blood, desire and family loyalty become impossible to separate, the Ellis sisters are pulled deeper into a conspiracy built into the foundations of their city. Because Eclipsera's most powerful families have spent generations deciding how much blood progress is worth.

And they may finally have gone too far.

Perfect for fans of Crescent City and The Atlas Six, When Blood Runs Red delivers engineered blood magic, dangerous romance, morally gray power games and a modern fantasy city where science and magic have become impossible to separate.

Imagine Crescent City’s glittering skyline hiding Red Rising’s ruthless power games, while its ruling families attempt to engineer a better humanity with Jurassic Park as their research lab.

N.B. Enter Eclipsera at your own risk. When Blood Runs Red contains graphic violence, mature themes, and adult situations. This story is intended for mature audiences (18+) and may not be suitable for all readers.