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DMITRY PETROV WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NEXT VAMPIRE KING OF RASPIEN. On the night of his eighteenth birthday, Dmitry unwittingly finds himself at the center of a scandal that turns his life upside down and he has to learn to live like the other side. Dmitry is determined to forge ahead and build a new life far from the poison of a family bound to a golden chair and the weight of a crown once promised. But dressing a prince in overalls does not a pauper make, a fate born into is not so easily shaken, and blood—indeed—runs much thicker than water.

Tropes
Sibling angst, found family, romantic subplot, secrets, prince to pauper, loyalty and deceit, queerness, identity, vampirism as otherness, envy, lies, good and evil

Tags
Low spice, m/m side characters, bi best friend, polyam best friend, m/f mc romance

Content Warnings

Language, bodily fluids, graphic physical violence and torture, knife use, internalized homophobia, queerphobic society, consumption of alcohol and cigarettes, pregnancy and discussions around abortion, terror and psychological abuse, depictions of an eating disorder, mentions of domestic abuse, major character death