Best Slow Burn Stories & Novels Collection

Earth is gone. Ten thousand years later, a cryogenic pod drifting through space is opened on Thorne, a planet ruled by the Blood. Inside sleeps Mary Hall, the last human. To the Blood, her red blood carries an irresistible scent, making her at once a scientific anomaly, a priceless possession, and dangerously tempting prey. Caught between powerful predators in a world where hunger, ownership, and ...

Lily Garcia got noticed on her first day delivering food.
They said the man in the Wexford mansion district never showed his face, and that he had an appetite — that he chose prey with the most life in it.
Lily didn’t believe in that kind of talk. Not until she was locked inside a billion-dollar house with the lights out and a breath settling against her throat.
You smell like a concha fresh from ...