Elowen Sorrel wants a quiet repair shop and a brother who stays safe. Then House Thorne reopens a debt her mother swore was paid, and the protection keeping ten-year-old Eli alive is on a seventy-two-hour clock.Killian Thorne, heir to the most dangerous House in Ashmere, offers a way out: one year as his fake fiancée. The debt vanishes, Eli is protected for good, and Elowen walks away with a fortune of her own. She writes her own terms. He signs every one.What she doesn't know is that he didn't find her by accident, and that the Sorrel name she was told to bury is one the Court has spent decades calling extinct.Now her magic wakes whenever a contract is near, a demon from her past insists she was never free to sign anything, and the man she's pretending to love is the only one who notices when she's exhausted.In Ashmere, everything has a price. Elowen is about to learn what this is