Pulse Rising (The Hollós Legacy, #1)

Some monsters are born. Others are made. Zora is about to learn the difference.

Zora Haynar flips burgers, trades bruises at a Muay Thai gym, and keeps company with a crow named George. She sees ghosts, heals too fast, and asks no questions about any of it—because surviving is easier when you don’t.

Then a night out ends in blood. A man with fangs tears through a Budapest club, her best friend takes a bite no one is meant to survive—and the only person with answers is Kálmán Fekete: the club’s owner, the city’s most dangerous secret, and the silver-eyed stranger who was watching Zora before the killing ever started.

Now Sofia is dying of a toxin no hospital can name. Detective Maya Kovács is hunting a killer the evidence insists can’t exist. And Zora—whose wounds close overnight, whose blood does what no one’s should—is running out of time to learn what she’s willing to trade for the truth.

Because Kálmán will help her. For a price. And every answer cracks the world open wider: a drug called Pulse turning predators feral, a hidden society of vampires, shifters, and shadow-wielders beneath the city’s nightlife—and a prophecy that seems to know Zora’s name.

Some doors, once opened, never close.

Pulse Rising is the first book in The Hollós Legacy, a completed dark urban fantasy romance trilogy. Expect a supernatural mystery that cracks open into mythic fantasy, and an enemies-to-lovers alliance with a multi-book slow burn where the tension smolders long before the physical heat ignites in Book 2. Perfect for fans of vast world-building, high-stakes mystery, and a story that grows darker, spicier, and more mythic with every book.

This book contains mature themes and dark content that may not be suitable for all readers. Please check the content warnings at the beginning of the book.