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The billionaire's ledger

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Elena Ricci is literally one "insufficient funds" notification away from losing it all.

Between her sister’s breathing treatments and a bank account that’s basically $0.00, Elena is desperate. She’s a math genius who’s used to hiding behind spreadsheets, but to save her apartment, she takes a job she’s 100% not qualified for: dancing at the city’s most expensive club.

It’s a total disaster. She’s stiff, she’s awkward, and she catches the eye of the one person she should’ve ghosted, Silas Vane.

Silas is the ultimate "red flag" billionaire. He’s rich, he’s arrogant, and his family tree is basically a forest of scandals. He doesn't just watch Elena fail on stage; he walks right up and humiliates her, shoving a stack of hundreds into her dress and telling her to "buy a soul."

Elena wants to throw the cash in his gorgeous face and never look back. But Silas has been doing his homework. He knows her secrets, including the "creative" accounting she’s been doing for local gangs to keep her sister alive. He gives her a choice: work for him, or go to jail.

Now, Elena is trapped in Vane Tower, forced to dive into The Ledger, a mysterious black book containing the Vane family’s darkest financial secrets. Silas needs her to find millions of dollars that vanished, but the deeper Elena digs, the more she realizes she’s not just looking at numbers. She’s looking at the truth behind the night her parents were murdered.

As the tension between her and Silas turns from "I hate you" to something way more dangerous, Elena has to figure out if Silas is her savior... or the villain she’s been running from all along.

In his world, everyone has a price. But Elena is about to prove she’s the one debt he can't collect.

If the man who holds your freedom also holds your heart, would you burn his world down to find the truth? Or keep you trapped in his golden cage

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The bass at Pulse was so loud I could feel it in my teeth. I was standing on a literal platform, wearing a sequined dress that felt like a giant scratchy band-aid. "You got this, El! Just pretend you're at a concert!" my roommate Sasha yelled over the music. I gave her a look that said I am going to kill you. I wasn’t a dancer. I was a girl who spent her weekends doing taxes for fun. But my sister Mia’s medical bills were piling up, and our landlord was a total shark. I needed the cash. Then, everything went quiet in my head. Silas Vane walked in. He was the "Alpha" of the city. Rich, gorgeous, and totally terrifying. He sat in the VIP booth like he owned the air we were breathing. Suddenly, he stood up and walked straight toward me. My heart was doing backflips. Was he actually coming to talk to me? He stopped at the edge of the stage, looked at me like I was a piece of trash, and pulled out a roll of hundreds. He reached out and shoved the cash right into my top. "Stop," he muttered, his voice like cold velvet. "You’re off-beat and it’s embarrassing. Take the money and go buy some rhythm. Or a new life." He walked away before I could even scream. I stood there, humiliated, with his money pressed against my skin.

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