Bride of the Crimson Court

Anya Volkova has one season of dancing left and a brother buried in a vampire's debt. When the Crimson Court calls in the loan, they offer a trade: Anya becomes the arranged bride of Dmitri Volkov, the Court's exiled first son, and the debt disappears. Dmitri has spent eighty years alone in a Siberian estate, guarding grief he won't name. He doesn't want a bride. She doesn't want a husband. The contract has a one-year exit clause, and they both plan to use it. But the estate is the last holding of an older bloodline, Anya's blood opens its altar, and the Court wants what it exiled. The clause comes due the night the soldiers arrive.