Your Meteor, Hidden in Flowers

Once every hundred years, a new Monster's Bride must be chosen — a young woman offered up as a sacrifice to the demonic creature confined somewhere within the land. When Stella's beloved sister falls victim to this chilling custom, Stella refuses to stand by and watch. She makes the selfless choice to take her sister's place, and is swiftly sent away to become the bride of the blood-soaked vampire Lavi. Lavi is a monster steeped in blood, a creature of nightmares. Yet the terror Stella braced herself for never quite arrives. Behind the fangs and the crimson stains, she discovers a being burdened by a deep, gnawing loneliness — a soul far more wounded than wicked, imprisoned as much by his despair as by his confinement. As sympathy slowly gives way to something warmer, Stella begins to wonder whether her tenderness can reach the man hidden beneath the monster. Will her affection be enough to pull Lavi back from the edge of his deadly despair, or was their love cursed from the very start?