Blood & Trials, book 3 in Glenhaven Vampire Series

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They tried to assassinate me before the trials even began.
I survived.
Now I'm wearing the bloody dress to the Convocation.

At the end of Book 2 (Blood & Bonds), Piper Monroe is finally prepared to face the vampire Convocation that will determine whether a human woman can live and inherit Glenhaven's Ninth Seat on the Vampire Council. She may never make it inside. Before the trials can begin, someone attempts to assassinate her.

Piper is stabbed and dying when Tristan does the only thing that can save the woman he loves: he gives her his vampire blood. She survives.

Tristan wants the Convocation stopped. Piper has another idea.

She intends to walk into that chamber wearing the bloodstained dress she was nearly murdered in. Because if Scotland's ancient vampire Houses are going to decide whether Piper Monroe is strong enough, wise enough, and worthy enough to exist and to take the Ninth Seat, they're going to look directly at what someone has already done to prevent her from claiming it.

Three trials await her. But no successor has ever faced them before.

As Piper is tested before the assembled Houses, the questions become larger than whether one mortal woman deserves a place on an immortal Council. The Accord itself is being challenged. Ancient assumptions are beginning to fracture. And Glenhaven Castle itself continues to behave as though Piper's arrival has awakened something far older than vampire politics.
Then the Third Trial takes an impossible turn.

Ancient doors in the Accord Chamber—doors that have remained sealed for centuries—open into a forgotten passage beneath the mountain.

What Piper, Tristan, and Lord MacGowan discover there changes everything they thought they knew about Glenhaven, the Keeper, and the history of the Ninth Seat. And waiting within those ancient places is the Watcher, who carries a warning.

Something is coming. Something connected to a history even Tristan doesn't know.

Meanwhile, Piper and Tristan's relationship has become deeper, more intimate, and far more permanent than either expected. Piper, the woman who has always moved on, is beginning to contemplate something she never imagined wanting:
Forever.

But Tristan carries a darkness of his own. Will it be their downfall?

This is book 3 of a four-book spicy vampire series.