Bookish Girl’s Emergency Contact Is a Vampire (Possessive Small Town Alpha Kings #85)

I pricked my finger on my dead grandmother’s iron box and woke the dark-haired, silver-eyed vampire king trapped inside it.

Now he says I’m his fated mate.

I’m just a librarian. The plan was to sell the crumbling manor, not to inherit a centuries-old king who took one look at me, called me his queen, and refused to leave my side.

So I hit him with a fire poker. It didn’t slow him. Nothing does, except me.

Valerian ruled another world and survived a century in the dark, and now he’s lethal, beautiful, and baffled by the twenty-first century.

He cannot win a fight with my blender. He can hear my heartbeat trip every time he looks at me, and he’s not above making me say out loud exactly what he does to my body.

“Before I ruin you for anyone else.”

Then he’s dying, and only my blood can save him. I give him my wrist and order him to drink, and the bite floods through me until I’m gloriously ruined.

“Command me, my queen,” he swears. “I am entirely at your mercy.”

And the bond didn’t stop there. It made him my emergency contact the day I freed him, and I haven’t changed it back.

The choice is mine: stay human, or give up everything to keep him.

We weren’t the only ones who felt that box open. Something older wants what my blood unlocks, and it’s at the gate.

Let it come. The king who bows to no one is on his knees for me, and I don’t share.

Bookish Girl’s Emergency Contact Is a Vampire is a warm, spicy, funny fated-mate paranormal romance. Forced proximity, a possessive vampire king, and a heroine who holds all the power. No cliffhanger, guaranteed HEA. Standalone. 18+.