Time to Kill

by Carin Hart

You'll never grow old, never die...
Daisy

I wasn’t supposed to stay in Salt Hollow.

I’ve spent the past year on the run. New town, new life, never staying anywhere long enough for anyone to find me. I learned the hard way that the wrong sort of people don’t stop hunting, and the last thing I saw before I took off was enough to get me killed.

Salt Hollow was just supposed to be another pitstop along the way. A rundown town on the Jersey shore with its half-dead boardwalk and locals who mind their business despite the fact that people... they disappear here, and no one seems to look for them.

And that's not all...

Then, a few nights into my stay, I meet a gorgeous if mysterious man on a motorcycle with a knowing smirk and icy blue eyes that see more than they should. I swear, he watches me like he already knows how this—us—will end. He’s dangerous in ways I can’t quite explain, the kind of man I should avoid, and who I can’t seem to stay away from whenever it grows dark outside.

I thought I was running from the mob; I didn’t realize I was running straight into something worse. Especially because Dodge? He likes the chase, knowing he'll always win. Suddenly, I'm his, and that means that Salt Hollow stopped being a place I can leave.

He promises me forever.

But to a monster like him, what does that mean?


Dodge

She doesn’t belong here. The pretty girl with the daisy in her hair… I knew it the second I first spotted her standing on the boardwalk, waiting beneath the neon lights of the ferris wheel like she hadn’t figured out yet that Salt Hollow doesn’t let people like her just walk away again.

My boys saw her, too. The way they looked at her told me everything I needed to know. They were hungry, but me… one glimpse and I was starving.

I should’ve fed. That’s how it works. That’s how it’s always worked. Take what I want, don’t hesitate, don’t hold onto anything that makes me seem weak--but Daisy Lane isn’t something I’m willing to let escape me. So, for the first time in a century, I make a different choice.

I decide to keep her.

The only problem is, Daisy doesn’t understand what that means to a possessive vampire. She still thinks she can leave when summer ends, that whatever she’s running from matters more than the way she so innocently walked into my life--and she’s wrong about that.

Because the things chasing her? I’ll take care of them.

The danger that lurks in the shadows outside her motel room? Nothing is more dangerous than I am.

And I’ve got plenty of time to make sure she understands that my Daisy? She’s not going anywhere...




*Time to Kill is a dark vampire romance inspired by the cult classic The Lost Boys and L.J. Smith’s The Forbidden Game trilogy. With a possessive, morally gray vampire hero and a woman on the run who will never be able to escape him, there are Halloween vibes despite being set in a rundown, beachy town during summer, and features a love that—like vampires—will never die.

Genres: Vampires, Dark Romance

Kindle Edition

Expected publication November 16, 2026