How to Kidnap a Kingpin | ONC2026

Odessa Jones is just trying to survive life in New Varnica, the monster-run metropolis where humans live uneasily among the supernatural elite. She shares a rent-controlled apartment in the chaotic Fringe District with her best friend Zola, a half-siren lounge singer.

So when Zola goes missing after Odessa's birthday party, Odessa does what any deeply exhausted, conspiracy-prone woman would do:

She hacks the club's ownership records, tracks down the elusive "S. Varn" linked to it...and accidentally kidnaps the physical embodiment of Sloth, one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Salazar Varn is no ordinary crime lord. He's not even just a monster. He's an ageless, darkly powerful primal being who governs stillness, surrender, and the seductive pull of doing absolutely nothing. But instead of vaporizing Odessa, Salazar is amused. He offers to help find Zola eager to avoid work.

While they bicker, flirt, and investigate their situationship spirals into a city-wide misadventure