Some debts are paid in money. Some are paid in blood.
Nico Venn knows better than to answer his brother’s calls.
But when his brother’s latest mistake drags him into New York’s hidden supernatural underworld, Nico is forced to make a choice: let his brother pay the price, or offer himself to the monster waiting to collect.
That monster is Draco Reed. Crime lord. Vampire. Master of Blackthorne Manor.
To save his brother, Nico signs a blood contract that binds him to Draco’s protection, authority, and hunger until the debt is satisfied. By day, Nico clings to his life as an antique restorer.
By night, he is drawn deeper into Blackthorne, a gothic manor with locked doors, whispered secrets, and a will of its own. Draco should be easy to hate. He is ruthless. Possessive. Impossible to read.
And far too interested in the one human who refuses to kneel for him. But the longer Nico stays at Blackthorne, the harder it becomes to ignore the pull between them.
The nightmares that feel too much like memories. The rooms that seem to know him. The dangerous tenderness beneath Draco’s control. Because Nico was not brought to Blackthorne by accident.
And the contract may not be the only thing waiting to claim him. Nico came here to buy his brother’s freedom and walk away unchanged.
He is starting to understand that no one walks out of Blackthorne the way they came in. And the most dangerous question isn’t whether he’ll survive Draco Reed.
It’s why some part of him no longer wants to leave.
