She was never asked. She was bound. At seventeen, Lyra Everwood was sealed by blood to three men — a pact her grieving father made, certain it was the only way to keep her alive. Rowan loves her without hesitation. Dorian wants her for reasons he won't name. And Kael Blackthorne looks at her like she's already lost to him. Kael doesn't do warmth. He doesn't do soft. He watched pack law take someone he loved once already, and he has spent six years making sure Lyra never gives the Tribunal a reason to look at her twice — even if that means letting her believe he feels nothing at all. But there is one night neither of them speaks of again. And a secret growing that the law was never built to allow. When the Tribunal comes for what's hers, Lyra will have to choose between running and the truth she's spent months refusing to believe — that the coldest man she has ever known has been trying to save her life since the day she was born. Some bonds are chosen. This one will have to be fought for.

She was payment for her father’s sins. He was the monster sent to collect. When Elena Russo’s father dies, he leaves behind a $2.3 million debt to the Moretti mafia. To save her mother, Elena agrees to surrender one year of her life to Dante Moretti—cold, feared, and untouchable. She expects cruelty. She finds something far more dangerous. Dante built his empire on control. Feelings were never part of the deal. But Elena walks in with fire in her eyes, and suddenly the man beneath the monster starts to break free. He tells himself she’s just a debt. He tells himself he won’t fall. He’s lying. And when Elena becomes a target, Dante must choose: the empire he built… or the woman who’s become the only thing he can’t lose. Some debts are paid in blood. This one is paid in love.