NAOMI
I’ve spent my life studying blood—its secrets, its mutations, its impossibilities. But nothing in medical school prepared me for his blood sample. One slide under my microscope and my carefully constructed scientific world crumbled. Cells that shouldn’t exist. Patterns that defy everything I know.
Then he walked into my lab after hours. Sebastian Vane. Powerful. Ancient. Definitely not human.
He offered me a contract written in blood—my expertise for his protection. How could I say no when my own rare blood condition suddenly made sense in ways modern medicine never explained?
I never meant to get pulled into vampire politics or ancient prophecies. I never expected to be hunted for what flows in my veins. And I certainly never planned to feel this burning attraction to a being who’s lived for centuries.
Now my blood might save his kind… or destroy them forever.
SEBASTIAN
Six hundred years I’ve ruled House Nightshade, maintaining the delicate balance between our worlds. Now a blood toxin is killing vampire elders, and our very existence hangs by a thread.
I needed a brilliant hematologist. I found so much more.
Dr. Naomi Rivers. Stubborn. Fearless. Intoxicating. Her midnight blood calls to me in ways I haven’t felt in centuries. The same blood that marks her as both salvation and threat to everything I’ve built.
Our blood contract was supposed to be simple. Clinical. Temporary. But nothing about Naomi is simple, especially the way she challenges everything I thought I knew about humans and the barriers between our kinds.
As enemies close in from all sides, I find myself breaking my most sacred rule: never let a human get too close. But with a prophecy unfolding and betrayal threatening from within my own House, the growing bond between us might be the key to survival—or the thing that finally destroys me after six centuries of walking this earth.
One thing is certain: contracts signed in blood are binding, and what’s happening between us will change both our worlds forever.
