To save her sister, Dani must make a bargain with the heir to the vampire throne.
Daniela Girard understands all too well that ever since the fall of the human race, survival has meant making yourself indispensable to one of its new masters. The fae and the wolves can mostly be avoided, but the vampires thirst for human blood, and at a terrible price.
Dani despises none of them more than cold Crown Prince Alexander Visconti, who insists on making announcements about his impending royal engagement ball while she and her two sisters slowly starve.
In the dark of winter, her ten-year-old sister Ava’s chronic illness reaches a breaking point. With her father gone and her stepmother lost to the ravages of blood addiction, Dani has to find a way to obtain the medicine she needs. And she has nothing left to sell but herself.
But when she’s saved from the blood auctions and her rescuer turns out to be none other than Alexander, Dani doesn’t know what to do. Each time he feeds from her throat, she cannot deny the dark yearning she feels, the unexplained connection to a prince she knows she should get as far away from as possible, and a man who she is discovering is anything but what she initially believed him to be.
Neither of them anticipates the connection that forms.
Every taste of her blood, every stolen kiss she knows she shouldn’t allow, buys her sister a few more days. Every time Alex feeds from her, the bond between them grows harder to sever.
A bond that could prove very dangerous for her if discovered.
