He bought my life to steal an empire. I forged a crown and stole his soul.
In the suffocating slums of The Dredge, my intellect was my only armor. As a master forger, I could replicate any document, any seal, any lie to survive. Until my own brother appraised my life at three million euros and sold me to the most terrifying apex predator on Isla de Ovaris to clear his gambling debts.
Kavren Solozar, Capo of the island's most ruthless syndicate, doesn't want my blood. He wants my mind.
He requires me to forge a centuries-old codex-a masterpiece of legal fiction-that will overthrow the island's sadistic dictator and hand Kavren the throne. It is a strictly mathematical transaction: I manufacture his coup, and my debt is paid. But Kavren is a calculating monster who refuses to play by the rules, and his possessive gravity is pulling me in entirely.
When our enemies breach his impenetrable fortress and drag me into the dark, the surgical Capo abandons his calculations. He unleashes a feral, apocalyptic war, burning his own city to the bedrock just to get me back.
He offers me an untraceable fortune and the freedom to disappear. But how can I walk away from the man who bled to crown me his equal?
We built a kingdom on a flawless lie. Now, we will drown our enemies in blood to keep it.
