THE DAYLIGHT BARGAIN

To buy back her dying sister's life, Cora signs a year-and-a-day blood-bond to the cold heir of the vampire house that once let her mother die, never knowing her blood is the only cure the old bloodlines have left, or that he chose her, out of every girl in the city, because he already knew exactly what runs in her veins.

Cora Lessard works nights in a hospice, watching the poor die the way her mother died three winters ago, the night House Carrow turned her family away. When the same wasting fever takes her little sister, the only cure in the city belongs to the houses that rule it, and the price is a Tithe-bond: a year and a day of her blood for their protection. She signs herself over to Lucian Carrow, the glacial heir who seals the bargain with his teeth. But the bond changes her faster than it should, the matriarch watches her like a held breath, and when Cora finds the bond-ledger she learns her name was entered weeks before her sister ever fell ill. She is not a tithe. She is the thing the dying houses have been hunting for two hundred years, and the man who came for her is the one she swore she would never forgive.