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Dracula's Contract
Paperback
Series: The Blood Covenant, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 12 2026
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dracula's Contract Book One of The Blood Covenant Series Crimson Quill
He has been alone for four centuries.
Not lonely. Alone - by discipline, by design, by the cold arithmetic of a man who understood what he was and what that cost other people. Then a woman at a tavern bar looked up from reading a room and looked directly at him, and four hundred years of sufficient became insufficient overnight.
The contract is real. The amendments are negotiated. The terms are kept.
Sorina signs first - a tavern owner's daughter who has been reading rooms her whole life and knows exactly what she is walking into. Valeria signs second - a noblewoman who arrives with her travel cases aligned and her spine straight and spends three days negotiating a lock. Petra signs third - a widow who walked four days and knocked on his gate with both hands because one would not have been enough.
Each woman gets her own amendment. Each woman keeps it. He is four hundred years old and has governed a principality by impaling two hundred and seventeen men in a field and eating dinner after, and he keeps every term of every contract because the contracts are not concessions - they are the architecture of the thing he is trying to be instead of the thing he is capable of being.
Then a fourth woman starts stopping at a glassmaker's window on Thursdays. She is promised to someone else. She is restless in the particular way of a woman standing at the edge of a sufficient life. And she keeps looking at the mountain.
Dracula's Contract is a dark romantasy novel set in 19th-century Wallachia. It is the story of four mortal women who are entirely themselves, one vampire who has been alone long enough to know the difference between management and want, and the household that forms between them - real, complicated, and built on terms that everyone meant when they signed.
This book contains explicit sexual content, vampire feeding and blood consumption, significant power imbalance between an immortal and mortal characters, morally complex consent dynamics, violence, and dark themes throughout. For mature readers 18+ only.
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