DAUGHTERS OF RUIN: THE COLLATERALTaken by a monster. Loved by a king.Emily Rose never asked to be anyone's collateral.When her father signs her over to settle a debt, she's dragged from the only life she's ever known into the hands of Luciano Lorentto — a mafia boss with cold eyes, a quiet voice, and a past that's tangled into hers in ways she never could have imagined.Locked behind his gates, Emily starts pulling at threads she was never meant to find. A portrait of herself she never posed for. A mother she buried years ago, alive and hiding in plain sight. A father who isn't her father at all. And a man named Viktor who has spent twenty years hunting her down — because she was his before she was anyone else's.Just when Emily thinks she's found the truth, a new voice reaches out from the dark. A sister she never knew existed. Raised by the same monster who wants her dead. And she's already promised that she's coming — for Emily, and for everyone Emily has ever loved.Caught between the captor who's protected her without her knowing, and a family built on secrets she's still uncovering, Emily has to decide who she trusts with her life. Because in this world, blood doesn't guarantee loyalty — and love doesn't come without a price.She was never supposed to survive this. She's done being anyone's collateral.