A runaway princess. A grave-hunting regiment. And a problem that won’t stay buried. Princess Elowen Valenne has spent her entire life being told what she can’t do. She can’t fight. She can’t leave the palace. And she definitely can’t risk her life protecting the kingdom. So she runs away to do exactly that. Disguised and determined to prove she’s more than a crown, Valenne joins the Gravesingers—the elite regiment tasked with hunting the kingdom’s most terrifying threat: the Murkbound, the restless dead who rise from their graves hungry for blood. Unfortunately, the regiment’s best hunter, Ryker Ashbane, wants nothing to do with her. He thinks she’s a spoiled royal playing hero—and a liability that could get them all killed. But when Murkbound attacks grow stranger and more dangerous, Valenne and Ryker are forced to work together to uncover what’s really raising the dead. Because if they fail, the kingdom won’t just lose a princess. It will lose the war against the grave itself. Love at First Bite is the first book in The Gravebinder Mystery Series , a gothic cozy mystery filled with enemies-to-lovers tension, undead monsters, and deadly secrets buried beneath the soil.