She found something she wasn't supposed to find.
Nora Vane is a forensic accountant. She is very good at finding things people have hidden — which is why, on a Saturday night in January, she is sitting alone in an empty office with a cold cup of tea, pulling threads from a set of accounts so perfect they have to be a lie.
By midnight she has found enough to understand that the lie is very large.
By half past midnight she has met Cael Dracul.
He is the oldest of the five Dracul brothers, the head of a vampire empire that has run London's underworld for three centuries, and the man who owns the building her firm has been using as overflow office space. He has compelled kings. He has toppled governments from the shadows. He has never, in three hundred years, failed to make a mortal forget what they've seen.
The compulsion doesn't work on Nora.
It has never not worked. Not once. Not in three hundred years.
Covenant law is clear: a mortal who cannot be compelled and survives contact with a House is claimed by that House. Which means Nora isn't going home. She's staying in Cael's house in Belgrave Square — under his roof, under his protection, indefinitely — and she has absolutely no intention of behaving like a captive.
She asks inconvenient questions. She finds things in his accounts that his own people missed. She argues about Victorian fiction and names her cat after a financial document and falls asleep in his study at two in the morning like she's always lived there.
And Cael Dracul — three hundred and forty-seven years old, accustomed to total control, genuinely terrifying — cannot stop watching her do it.
He was not expecting her.
He is not going to recover from her.
He is not sure, for the first time in three centuries, that he wants to.
Blood Debt is a full-length dark paranormal romance with a guaranteed HEA, explicit content, and a heroine who absolutely refuses to be afraid of the monster who took her — even when she probably should be.
Genre: Historical Romance
Nora Vane is a forensic accountant. She is very good at finding things people have hidden — which is why, on a Saturday night in January, she is sitting alone in an empty office with a cold cup of tea, pulling threads from a set of accounts so perfect they have to be a lie.
By midnight she has found enough to understand that the lie is very large.
By half past midnight she has met Cael Dracul.
He is the oldest of the five Dracul brothers, the head of a vampire empire that has run London's underworld for three centuries, and the man who owns the building her firm has been using as overflow office space. He has compelled kings. He has toppled governments from the shadows. He has never, in three hundred years, failed to make a mortal forget what they've seen.
The compulsion doesn't work on Nora.
It has never not worked. Not once. Not in three hundred years.
Covenant law is clear: a mortal who cannot be compelled and survives contact with a House is claimed by that House. Which means Nora isn't going home. She's staying in Cael's house in Belgrave Square — under his roof, under his protection, indefinitely — and she has absolutely no intention of behaving like a captive.
She asks inconvenient questions. She finds things in his accounts that his own people missed. She argues about Victorian fiction and names her cat after a financial document and falls asleep in his study at two in the morning like she's always lived there.
And Cael Dracul — three hundred and forty-seven years old, accustomed to total control, genuinely terrifying — cannot stop watching her do it.
He was not expecting her.
He is not going to recover from her.
He is not sure, for the first time in three centuries, that he wants to.
Blood Debt is a full-length dark paranormal romance with a guaranteed HEA, explicit content, and a heroine who absolutely refuses to be afraid of the monster who took her — even when she probably should be.
Genre: Historical Romance
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