Part I
by CK Reeve
She was sealed in stone for a thousand years.
Now the stone is broken.
Urukia, an ancient vampire entombed by zealots who feared her power, claws free into a world she doesn't recognize — a city of neon, noise, and endless prey. Hungry for blood and burning for vengeance, she begins rebuilding her brood one dark, intimate turning at a time.
But the holy order that hunted her kind never stopped. And they're already closing in.
The Taste of Eternity is a visceral, atmospheric gothic horror that asks a dangerous question: after a thousand years in the dark, how far will a monster go to remind the world she exists?
The answer is written in blood.
Part I of the Taste of Eternity series by CK Reeve.
The Taste of Eternity — Part I
CK Reeve | Dark Fantasy / Gothic Horror
A thousand years sealed in stone. Now nothing will hold her back.
Urukia was entombed in the bones of a mountain by silver-tongued zealots who feared what she was building — a brood, a lineage, a legacy carved in blood. Bound by arcane runes and left to calcify in absolute darkness, she did not break. She waited.
When a seismic rupture finally shatters her prison, Urukia claws free into a world she no longer recognizes. The thatched hamlets of her era are gone, replaced by a sprawling, neon-drenched metropolis of crumbling alleys, iron bridges, and a million warm, oblivious heartbeats. Disoriented but ravenous, she descends into the city's underbelly — hunting, feeding, and turning a select few into the first threads of a new brood.
But Urukia did not survive a millennium of silence to simply feed. She remembers the face of the man who sealed the stone. And vengeance, like stone, endures.
As her brood quietly expands through the city's forgotten margins — among street artists, musicians, and the desperate souls of the undercity — a holy order of hunters known as the Silver Veil begins to take notice. Bodies are turning up cold. The fog over Eldridge Bay is growing. And the order's most ruthless operative is already moving through the shadows.
What begins as a story of resurrection becomes something far more dangerous: a collision between ancient hunger and modern obsession, between a creature who has outlasted empires and the mortals determined to put her back in the dark.
Spanning 15 chapters of gothic atmosphere, visceral action, and slow-burning tension, The Taste of Eternity — Part I announces CK Reeve as a bold new voice in dark fantasy — one unafraid to let the monster be magnificent
