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Maren Thistlewick made a bargain she never intended to keep.

Desperate and reckless, she promised her firstborn to a witch in exchange for a better life, fully expecting she'd find a way out of it later. Years on, her life is stable, her future is bright... and her love life is an unmitigated disaster.

Suitors lose interest. Dates collapse spectacularly. Intimacy is, quite literally, impossible.

Enter Corvin Blackbarrow-the very witch she tried to forget.

He's furious. The contract remains unfulfilled, his magic is tied up enforcing it, and Maren, infuriatingly, has yet to produce so much as a promising candidate. Determined to resolve the situation, Corvin takes matters into his own hands.

If Maren won't secure her future, he'll make sure she does.

What follows is a series of coached conversations, disastrous dates, and increasingly blurred lines as Corvin inserts himself into her romantic life, strictly professionally, of course.

But as progress stalls and tension builds, Maren begins to realize something far more dangerous than a magical contract:

She doesn't want anyone else.

And if the firstborn she promised already belongs to the witch... then so might her heart.