Cousin Julian: "Bark like a stray dog, and maybe I'll toss you a hundred bucks for your mother's Coffin." Aunt Cecile threw red wine across his face and had him thrown into the rain. They thought Marcus Vance was just a penniless delivery boy. When dawn arrived, the city's most ruthless loan shark wiped out a thirty-million-dollar debt to seize the family estate - only to discover the man he despised held the unbreakable master deed to the entire empire.