Princess Seraphina is framed by her spiteful stepmother and dragged to a clandestine slave auction, where an outcast half-vampire named Julian purchases her freedom. In exchange for medicinal herbs to heal his ailing mother, Julian demands that Seraphina train as a covert operative to seduce the head of an opposing vampire dynasty.
Years of shared danger forge a deep attraction between them, yet Julian rigidly pushes her toward the perilous mission. When burning jealousy shatters his composure upon seeing her near another aristocrat, Julian risks clan warfare to steal her back, unaware she carries his magical heir.
