He bought my debt to lock me in his rotting Gilded-Age mansion. He didn’t expect me to demand the keys.
My sister vanished, leaving me chained to a massive $340,000 debt. As a rare-documents conservator struggling in a Boston winter, I had no way out—until a mysterious holding company bought my debt to the exact dollar. Their offer? Catalog a neglected, priceless archive in a remote Newport cliffside mansion called The Crags.
But a massive nor’easter traps me inside, and the heavy doors are bolted from the outside. My new employer, Casimir Valerius, is a 900-year-old billionaire who doesn’t breathe, whose skin is as cold as cathedral stone, and who watches me with a starving intensity.
Casimir claims I am the “Unbinding”—the last living descendant of a bloodline capable of curing the ancient curse that forces him to destroy anyone he loves. He didn’t hire me; he caged me to save himself. But as the ice glazes the windows shut and his terrifying restraint gives way to an undeniable, scorching heat, I realize my captor might be the only one who truly sees me.
Outside the snow, a ruthless vampire council and Casimir’s ancient, psychotic maker are hunting us. If the storm breaks, the war begins.
I spend my life saving ruined things. Now, I have to decide if the monster who bought me is worth saving—and what it will cost my soul to let him keep me.
Tropes for Purchased in Blood:
Billionaire Vampire & Human Romance
Captive & Forced Proximity (Snowed In)
Fated Bloodline / The “Cure”
Competence Kink (Fiercely practical and defiant FMC)
Gothic Mansion Setting
Tortured, Brooding MMC
High Heat / Spicy Paranormal Romance
