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At the immaculate halls of the Institut Montferand, Paris's most prestigious finance school, money is more than a language - it is a border. Rebecca Diallo, a brilliant scholarship student raised by a single mother working as a nurse's aide, enters this world armed with sharp lucidity and the most dangerous weapon of all: merit.
There, she comes face to face with the heirs of a world that leaves nothing to chance - the De Bellamie brothers.
Édouard, the elder, the designated successor, wields a cold intelligence and a disarming, calculated charm. He reads people the way others read balance sheets: efficiently, and without sentiment.
Victor, the younger, charismatic and more impulsive, shines effortlessly, buoyed by the kind of confidence only those who have never tasted failure can afford.
Between Rebecca and the brothers, a complex game unfolds - a mix of attraction, rivalry, and shifting power. In this microcosm where every gesture has a price and every silence a meaning, alliances form as quickly as they fracture. Rebecca soon understands that brilliance isn't enough to survive here: she must learn to decipher everyone's interests... and protect her own.
A novel of class struggle and self-ascension, Compound Interest explores what is gained - and what is lost - when you rise in a world designed to keep you out. It is the story of a young woman who refuses to apologize for her brilliance, and of a family in which each heir carries a different truth about power.