Chapter 1: The Fever | Lover, Predator, Vampire by Dante Remy

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Milena’s rebirth is as brutal as it is beautiful. Sacrificed by her village to stop a plague, buried alive with the fever burning inside her, she claws out of the grave not with vengeance—but with longing. Her memories of young love are still warm. She doesn't rise as a monster, but as a woman still in love. That is, until she tastes blood.

Set in the haunting hills beneath Orava Castle, this chapter evokes ancient folklore where disease is met with burial and blood becomes both curse and sacrament. Milena’s first kill is not a betrayal of her humanity—it is the discovery that humanity, in its fragile heat, is the true temptation. This chapter crackles with physical awakening—her first thirst not just for blood, but for skin, heat, and the terror-thrill of closeness. The erotic and the horrific are inseparable here; rebirth means not only death, but ecstasy found in its wake.