Elena Marlowe has never once gotten caught. Eleven jobs, eleven clean exits, and a six-year hunt for the truth about her father that's cost her more sleep than any of them. So when she finally breaks into the one vault that might have an answer, she's not expecting the owner to be sitting in the dark waiting for her.Damian Stone doesn't call the police. He doesn't shoot her either, though he easily could and probably should. Instead he offers her a deal she has no business taking, pose as his fiancée for nine days, help him survive a summit with the one man patient enough to wait years for him to slip, and walk away with the one piece of paper that might finally tell her who erased her father from existence.It's supposed to be a job. It stops being one somewhere around the point a training fight turns into something neither of them planned on, or maybe it was already over the second his own head of security pulled a gun on them both and she found out the man she'd agreed to marry, fake or not, had a lot more people who wanted him dead than she'd been told.What she didn't expect was that the trail leading back to her father and the one leading to Damian's murdered brother were never two separate roads. Same war. Same men covering it up. And now the two people who should trust each other least are the only two who might actually get out of it alive.This one's dark. It's got a hero who means it when he says touch her and die, a heroine who's better with a lock pick than she is at admitting what she feels, and a countdown that doesn't slow down once for either of them. Enemies to lovers, fake engagement, forced proximity.if you like your romance with a body count attached, this is that book.

Emily Hart dances three nights a week at Onyx Lounge under the name Jade, counting every bill that keeps her mother’s dialysis going. One exhausted Thursday a quiet man in an expensive suit sits in the darkest corner and asks her to just sit with him no show, no performance. They talk for hours. They spend the night. In the morning he’s gone, leaving cash and no name. Two lines on a test change everything. Then a scan shows two heartbeats. Emily quits the club, goes home, and raises the twins Ethan and Grace alone with her mother’s help, never knowing who their father was. Years later, desperate for steady work, she lands a job at Cole Enterprises. She walks into the final interview and freezes. The CEO across the table is the same man from that night. He doesn’t recognize her. She takes the job and tries to stay invisible. Nathan Cole finds himself watching the new hire without understanding why. Secrets start to crack. When the truth finally surfaces when he learns he has two children he never knew existed both of them have to decide whether one night and a lifetime of silence can still become something real.

HAN SEO-YUNMy name is Han Seo-yun. I'm 17 years old. I'm obsessed with Kwn. And i sing, badly in the shower. I used to think i knew my life.I knew where i lived.I knew who my mother was.I knew my father was dead.That was enough for me.I just wanted to pass my classes, explore Korea with my best friends, have crushes on boys i knew wouldn't like me back, blast Kwn in my earphones, and survive high school. I never questioned why my mother avoided talking about my father. I never questioned why she went quiet when i asked about my childhood. I didn’t remember any of it anyway.Some questions were simply better left alone.At least, that's what i believed.Until things started changing.Strange dreams.Strange feelings.Moments i couldn't explain.At first, i told myself i was imagining things.I was wrong.Because sometimes, the truth doesn't ask for permission before it finds you.And when mine finally came looking for me, i had no idea that the life i knew was built on a lie.I only wish i'd known sooner that some secrets were never meant to stay buried.

Elena Marlowe has broken into eleven buildings and never lost a night's sleep over any of them. The twelfth was supposed to be just as easy get in, crack the vault, get out with the one thing she actually came for: a ledger that might finally explain what happened to her father six years ago.She doesn't get out.Damian Stone has been sitting in the dark the whole time, watching her work. He's the kind of dangerous person that never needs to raise its voice the head of an empire built on other people's fear, and apparently a man with very particular taste in thieves. He doesn't call the police. He doesn't put a bullet in her, though he easily could. Instead, he makes her an offer she can't walk away from: become his fiancée for nine days, stand beside him in front of the one man who wants him dead, and walk away with every name in that ledger when it's over.It should be simple. Pretend to love a man she's known for a few hours. Survive a summit with a rival crime lord circling for blood. Get the answers she's spent six years chasing.It stops being simple the moment she learns someone inside Damian's own organization let the wolves in and that finding them might matter more than the wedding neither of them plans to have.Nine days. One fake engagement. A traitor with a face she hasn't met yet. And a man who was never supposed to matter to her, doing exactly that anyway.A Debt Paid in Blood is a fast-burning romantic suspense about debts, danger, and the kind of trust you're not supposed to give a man who once held a gun to your throat.