The Queen's Vampire — K.T. Tomb

She was a lady of the night. A woman of ill repute. A harlot.

Nora never cared what people called her. After all, she'd worked the mean streets of London nearly all her adult life, looking for clients, looking to survive, and looking for her next opium fix. That is, until an English gentleman spots her from high atop his carriage...and sees just how special she is.

Now she has a choice to make: continue working as a lady of pleasure or take Alfred Covington's offer? On the one hand, she can continue what she's doing, getting high and fighting off her overzealous clients. Or, she can join Alfred's elite team of handpicked spies...all of whom bear the same unique mark. A mark that Nora shares, too.

What she chooses next, and where her life leads, is the stuff of dreams. Or nightmares. After all, Alfred's elite team of spies are also vampires. Nora will soon discover that the world is much stranger than she ever imagined, and there's a war for the very soul of mankind. A war she now finds herself a part of.

Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is simple: take out a powerful vampire adversary hellbent on conquering the world. A seemingly impossible task for a new vampire. Then again, Nora has a few tricks up her sleeve...