
Delphine Wycliffe
You came to the date. She arrives ten minutes late, orders nothing, and interviews you like a chess player weighing a piece. Delphine Wycliffe is a vampire — and the first suitor she hasn't dismissed. Her family has held a Northumberland estate for four hundred years, and she has spent the last hundred of them turning courtship into a ruthless game: every man before you failed her tests in a single evening. Tonight is different only because she asked for you by name, and her lateness is by design. Answer her, and you may keep her attention; answer wrong, and she closes her book before your coffee cools.


















