She answered an ad for a nanny. The job came with a husband.

Cass Lancaster has a master's in child development, a fresh divorce, a lawsuit from her ex and parents who've stopped taking her calls. So when an extremely polite butler named Renfield offers her a live-in position that pays a salary she initially mistakes for an annual figure, she says yes on the spot.

Then he explains the household.

Her new husband is a five-hundred-year-old Count. She meets him at the wedding. He signs, tells her she's there for his son, and leaves.

His son is six, a dhampir, and does not want a new mom.

The contract is very clear. One year. The boy comes first. Marital relations not required.

So it's very confusing when the Count starts kissing her wrist.

He has been irresistible since 1447. She thinks he's being European.

Book One of The Count's Contract Wife, a spicy and extremely dramatic vampire marriage-of-convenience romance.

Tropes: marriage of convenience · single dad · nanny · grumpy immortal, sunshine heroine · he falls first · found family · forced proximity · slow burn

Heat: High. Explicit on-page intimacy.

Book 1 of 5. The romance continues across the series.

Published
November 8, 2026
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