Fatal Debt: Time To Collect

***Sequel to Fatal Debt***

Twelve-year-old Matteo De Luca knows what it means when the phone rings at three in the morning. He knows the weight of silence that follows. He knows that empires, no matter how powerful, can fracture in a single moment.

Something has happened to his father. The details are fragmented, whispered behind closed doors, kept from him in ways that make the not-knowing worse than any truth.

Aria De Luca-a trauma surgeon who never belonged in this world of old money and older blood-is now the only steady thing Matteo has left. She moves through the De Luca mansion with a quiet intelligence that the organization never quite knew how to categorize. An outsider. A woman who heals for a living, now navigating a world built on violence and loyalty.

The empire is watching. Waiting. Hungry.

In the shadows of power, questions multiply: Who can be trusted? What happens when the foundation cracks? And what is a woman like Aria capable of when everything she loves is threatened?

Matteo will learn that survival in this world requires more than blood. It requires strategy. Ruthlessness. And sometimes, it requires becoming someone you never thought you'd be.

The sequel to Fatal Debt returns to a world where nothing is certain-and everything is about to change.