Provisions

When a human commits a crime, there are three options:

1. The human becomes a provider. For one year, they are a slave to the hunger of the vampires who purchased their debt. After a year they are free to go, but being bitten comes at a cost.
2. The human’s debt is purchased by a vampire clan or, occasionally, a wealthy human family. They become an indebted, and they serve the household until their sentence is complete, or they are released.
3. Finally, if no one wants you, you are sent to the workhouses. You work off your debt, year by year. Once there, you are no longer human. You become nothing. When a criminal dies there, their debt must continue to be paid.

Hero Beckwith does not remember a time before the vampires came into power. Now, in her twentieth year, she finds herself being auctioned off to serve the remainder of the fifty-year sentence her deceased father failed to complete. Her worst fear is realized when an infamous trio of powerful vampires bids on her to be their provider. The Blythe clan may have purchased her services, but her obedience was not part of the deal. They say you can’t choose your family, but when the vampires imprisoning her are not who she thought they would be, lines begin to blur. The three men show her a life she didn’t know she was missing. But not everyone is content to revel in her newfound joy, and many would be just as happy to see her rotting in the ground next to her father. After being alone for so long, the Blythe men will stop at nothing to protect what’s theirs.