Full Circle by I.M. Cupnjava
Kendrick and Byron were soul mates and lovers in the middle of the twenty century. They were ancient vampire, living in the human world even before Jesus Christ's birth and death. But Byron was missing during WWII and after 360 years Kendrick is still searching for his lover, cause he has promised to wait for him and a covenant between vampires can't be broken without the death of one of the two lovers.
Now Byron is back, but he has no memories of his past life and of his being a vampire. He, like all other people, thinks to vampires like demons, instead they are fallen angels and Kendrick is hoping to rebuild life in post apocaliptic world where life is a rare treasure. But Byron has problems to see feeding on humans like a good thing even if it brings pleasure to that humans. And there are the vladimires, the opposite of vampires, who hunt on humans and kill them, and for common people his difficult to distinguish between vampires and vladimires.
The book is presented like a yaoi genre. I have difficult to find in this book the classical yaoi element. Kendrick is not seme or uke, like Byron. During sex there isn't a bottom or a top, they changes role on occasion. Even the physical appeareances don't remind the classical yaoi scheme. Say this, if you stop to search similarity to a yaoi genre, and read it like a vampire romance, you can appreciate it. It's original (true the coupling between vampires and angels is not original, but present vampires as angels yes), and Kendrick and Byron are two really interesting characters. Even the fast start, without preparation to the story, is interesting: from the beginning you are immersed in the new world and has to struggle to caught all the details. And then the epilogue, without mercy for the main characters, and with an open point or Josiah and Alvaro... so I.M. Cupnjava is not gentle with her characters, she makes them suffer and deserve every sweet moment.
Amazon Kindle: Full Circle
Publisher: Freya's Bower (September 25, 2012)