A Debt for the Devil

Lazar Brandt has one law, and he has never broken it: he takes only what is owed, and he never once lies. For thirty years that law has made him the most feared collector on the coast. It has never made him curious, until the night he collects a dead man's debt and gets, instead of money, his daughter.

Alethea Marchant was the best eye in the country before a forgery she certified ruined a man and buried her name with him. She has priced herself at nothing for five years. Now she is catalogued collateral in a house full of a stranger's secrets, and the first thing her gift finds inside his vault is a lie that should not exist: her father's debt was never real. It was built, patiently, on purpose, to deliver her here.

Someone has been robbing the Devil for years. To find the man clever enough to forge a debt, a certificate and a decade of quiet theft, the collector and his collateral have to become allies, and then something far more dangerous than that.

She was sent to be owned. He was never supposed to want to let her go.