When Vivian leaves Uganda for Manchester, she believes she is starting over. Instead, she meets Marcus. He is charming. Wealthy. Generous beyond reason. He offers her everything she lacks. A luxury flat. A powerful job. A life that feels secure at last. But every gift comes with a price. Every promise tightens a grip she cannot see. As Vivian fades under Marcus’s supernatural control, her eighteen-year-old sister Agnes steps in. Guided by ancestral knowledge and fierce love, Agnes follows her sister into a world ruled by an ancient force that feeds on women who are far from home and easy to isolate. This is not just a love story gone wrong. It is a contract. And contracts like this are written in blood. A Contract in Kindness is a dark gothic novel about migration, power, and the lengths a sister will go to save the one person she cannot lose.