Vampire's Temporary Wife

 Emergency nurse Evelyn Hart knows exactly how much desperation costs.Between her family's failing mortgage, the medical debt left after her mother's death, and a younger brother determined to sacrifice his own future to help, Evelyn has run out of easy solutions. Then a stranger approaches her after a night shift with an offer too impossible to believe.Marry Adrian Vale for six months.In exchange, every family debt disappears and Evelyn receives enough money to change their lives forever.There is only one complication.Adrian is a vampire.Wealthy, powerful, devastatingly handsome, and more than a century old, Adrian needs a living human wife to satisfy the terms of an inheritance tied to Blackthorn Hall, his vast coastal estate. The marriage is supposed to be nothing more than a legal arrangement. Separate bedrooms. No feeding. No supernatural compulsion. No romantic obligations.Six months. Then they walk away.But Evelyn quickly discovers that Blackthorn is protecting far more than family wealth. Hidden beneath the estate is an ancient supernatural legacy capable of controlling vampires through blood, and Adrian's enemies will kill to possess it.When their temporary marriage places Evelyn directly in the middle of an old bloodline war, the carefully negotiated boundaries between husband and wife begin to collapse. Adrian becomes increasingly determined to protect the human woman he never intended to love, while Evelyn refuses to be treated as something fragile simply because her husband is stronger, faster, and nearly impossible to kill.What begins as a financial bargain becomes late-night conversations, dangerous attraction, shared secrets, stolen kisses, and a growing intimacy neither of them included in the contract.But Adrian's past is far from buried. An ancient enemy is searching for the source of his family's power, a woman Adrian believed dead may still be alive, and Blackthorn itself begins recognizing Evelyn as something far more important than a temporary bride.As blood magic, hidden family history, supernatural compulsion, and betrayal close around them, Evelyn and Adrian must decide whether their marriage is still an arrangement—or whether the one thing neither expected has become the only thing worth protecting.The Vampire's Temporary Wife is a marriage-of-convenience paranormal romance featuring a protective vampire hero, an independent nurse heroine, forced proximity, gothic atmosphere, supernatural intrigue, ancient family secrets, slow-burn attraction, dangerous blood magic, emotional healing, and a love that must be freely chosen long after the contract stops mattering.