Vampire Mates (Andie M Long) Books in Order

Vampire Mates is a collaborative paranormal-romance collection in which multiple authors contribute standalone stories about vampires and the people who change their long lives. Andie M. Long's entry is Immortal Bite, a compact, more serious vampire romance centered on grief, isolation, and the possibility of connection.

The story follows Caleb, a vampire living on a remote country estate. Since being turned, he has kept himself apart from the world, with his rose garden serving as a reminder of a love he lost long ago. The garden is beautiful, but it also shows the distance between Caleb and ordinary human life. The thorns that would hurt a person cannot truly harm him.

Then Vivienne begins dreaming.

Vivienne is an artist who feels compelled to sketch roses, a garden, and a stranger she cannot explain. The name Tetburn Manor keeps returning to her, and she eventually sets out to find the place from her dreams. At the estate, her connection to the garden and its guarded owner creates the possibility of something neither character expected.

The tension in Immortal Bite is quieter than in Long's comic village and dating-agency books. Caleb must decide whether he can risk opening his life again, while Vivienne is struggling with deep unhappiness. The story includes references to self-harm, so readers should approach it with that content in mind.

As part of a shared collection, the Vampire Mates books are designed to work as individual novellas. There is no need to read every contribution before starting Long's story. The shared idea is the attraction of immortality, dangerous magic, and the chance that an apparently impossible relationship might offer a new future.

Start with Immortal Bite for Andie M. Long's contribution. It is a brief paranormal romance with a gothic country-house mood, a vampire shaped by loss, an artist drawn toward a mystery, and a rose garden that becomes the meeting point for two damaged people.