The Cardinal Code: Absolution
by Avery Sterling
(The Cardinal Code, #2)
Publication date: April 17th 2026
Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Romance
The Cardinal Code: Absolution continues the dark, seductive saga of the Cardinales—an elite society of vampires whose influence shapes governments, history, and the hidden world beneath human civilization.
Paislee Sullivan never wanted power. She only wanted Michael. But loving a man born into a secret dynasty of blood and control means standing in the shadow of everything he represents.
When Michael Chamberlain is summoned to London, he’s pulled into a political struggle rooted in ancient bloodlines and forbidden truths. As old laws are challenged and long-buried secrets begin to surface, Paislee finds herself no longer at the edge of his world—but at its center.
The deeper she is drawn into Cardinales society, the more dangerous her presence becomes. To some, she is leverage. To others, a threat. To Michael, she is the only thing that has ever mattered.
Bound by love and hunted by forces determined to preserve the Order’s control, they must confront a truth the Dominium has spent centuries suppressing.
Because some bloodlines were never meant to merge.
And loving each other may cost them everything.
The quiet didn’t feel peaceful.
It felt hollow. Stretched thin across the walls like something waiting to tear.
Downstairs, Michael stood at the tall window with one hand braced against the glass. The woods beyond blurred into shadow and light, but he wasn’t seeing them. His reflection stared back instead—drawn, sharp, almost feral around the eyes.
He barely recognized himself.
He had broken a law older than the Order itself.
Not a regulation. Not a protocol debated in chambers and amended with ink.
A primal rule, one carved into bone and instinct long before there were councils to enforce it.
The reason had never been framed as morality. It wasn’t based on ceremony or superstition. It was survival. Control. A hard stop built into their kind because whatever came from it was never predictable—and never safe.
And he had shattered it.
It struck like broken glass in his chest.
Every sound from the second floor cut straight through him.
Paislee’s steady breathing.
The soft rustle of movement.
His fingers tightened against the glass. They were shaking.
Engines rumbled in the distance.
Gravel crunched outside, sharp and intrusive.
Three black cars rolled up the drive.
Paislee’s voice floated down from the stairs. “What’s going on?”
Michael didn’t answer.
Then, Alexander Bishop stepped out of the first black car.
“Agents,” he said.
Avery Sterling’s love for the romance genre began in her teen years when she picked up her first novel. She was captivated by the sweeping scale of emotions brought about by the words. The experience catapulted her towards learning the art of wielding a breathtaking adventure, with a love that felt authentic. Wanting to inspire people with her own thoughts and words, she finished her first novel at sixteen. It was a step towards understanding the essence of what she wished to create.
Most of her youth was spent traveling, searching out the romance and beauty in her everchanging world. From the waves that crashed against the rocky shores of Downeast, Maine, to the warm breezes of the Caribbean, she discovered that love was universal, apparent in its grandest and simplest of forms. Her goal is to write novels an audience can relate to, one that conveys the truth and nature of love… with all that steamy romance.
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