Evelyn Brooks has built her career on making impossible weddings look effortless.
At twenty-nine, she is one of New York City’s most sought-after luxury wedding planners, trusted by billionaires, celebrities, and families who expect perfection. But behind the polished events and flawless timelines, Evelyn’s life is unraveling. Her mother is gravely ill with a mysterious condition no doctor can explain, and the medical bills are becoming impossible to manage.
Then the Vescari family offers her the most lucrative commission of her career.
The money could change everything.
The problem is Tancredi “Tanner” Vescari.
Cold, commanding, and dangerously magnetic, Tanner is the head of one of New York’s most powerful families, with an empire that stretches from Wall Street into the city’s criminal underworld. He is also the same stranger Evelyn caught watching her from across a Manhattan street.
She should walk away.
Instead, she takes the job.
As she plans his younger sister’s lavish wedding, Evelyn begins noticing things inside the Vescari world that don’t add up: locked rooms, late-night guests, unexplained blood, and secrets everyone seems desperate to protect.
Then she witnesses a hidden ceremony no human was ever meant to see.
The Vescari family are vampires.
And Tanner is their King.
Vampire law leaves Evelyn with two choices: death, or a three-month blood contract binding her to Tanner’s household and placing her under his protection—and his command.
With her mother’s life hanging in the balance, Evelyn signs.
Now trapped in Tanner’s mansion, surrounded by enemies and secrets, she must survive the world he rules without losing herself to the man she refuses to trust.
But Tanner already knows something Evelyn doesn’t.
Her bloodline should have died centuries ago.
And the power sleeping inside her may be the one thing capable of saving the Vampire King.
Or destroying him.
