The Devil's Debt

I didn't agree to marry a devil.
I agreed to outlive him.

Maren Callas runs the Gulf like a shipping empire - cargo routes, port contracts, and the kind of leverage that doesn't show up in a police report. He's powerful, controlled, and entirely comfortable with the violence his world requires.

He doesn't ask for loyalty.
He buys it.

When my sister disappears because of a debt my father left behind, I become his newest acquisition. Twelve months as his fiancée. One year inside his house. One contract that turns me into bait.

He says he'll bring my sister home.
He doesn't tell me he'd known where she was for three weeks before he came for me.

I live in his dead wife's wing.
I wear his ring in public.
I sleep three doors down from the most dangerous man on the Gulf.

He doesn't touch me.
Not because he doesn't want to.
Because if he does, he won't stop.

But I'm not just bait. I'm the only one who can read his numbers - and when I do, I find the traitor before he does.

Now Maren must choose:
The shipping route his father built.
Or the woman he never meant to want.

This time, he won't get three weeks to calculate.
And I won't give him a second chance to lose me.

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Forced engagement Morally gray protector One roof He falls first
Competent heroine Explicit heat Found family Hard-earned HEA