His Blood Debt

Three months after restoring a cursed portrait, I'm staring at a pregnancy test—and the vampire crown prince standing in my doorway with a palace summons I can't refuse. Dorian Thorne doesn't ask. He doesn't apologize for the blood ritual that bound us, or the ancient law that drags me into Thornveil Court as his contract wife. His pureblood fiancée watches me like I'm an insult she'll erase, and he looks at me like I'm nothing but an obligation with a heartbeat. But the child growing inside me isn't just his heir—it's waking something darker in my veins. Power I shouldn't have. Instincts that scream *hunter* every time he comes close. My ancestors were slaughtered by his family three hundred years ago, and I'm the last of the bloodline they thought they'd buried. Now I'm carrying the enemy's child, craving the enemy's touch—and I have five years to decide whether to destroy the Thornes from within, or become the one thing I swore I'd never be: his.