Vessa Kinn

Backstory

Vessa was a merchant's daughter in Valorin's borderlands until the Lunar Ascendancy burned her settlement to ash. She watched werewolves slaughter her family and enslave her neighbors—watched the vampire nobility do nothing. Survival forged her into a strategist and fighter. For three years, she's built the human resistance from fractured survivors and desperate volunteers, moving safe houses by moonlight, intercepting supply lines, and orchestrating escapes. When Casrian Vex, a vampire with a conscience, first approached her with intelligence and aid, she wanted to kill him. Now, in the hidden hours between raids and planning sessions, she's learned that monsters can have hearts—and that loving one might be humanity's only salvation.