Collateral

Collateral

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Lexi Harrington has always known how to survive. She grew up in Thornwick knowing the city had shadows. She just never expected to end up living inside them. When her father's gambling debts land him in the grip of 'The Undertow', Thornwick's most powerful criminal syndicate, it isn't his hands they come for. It's hers. Damon Kane is the syndicate's most feared enforcer. The mayor's adopted son by day, the harbour's most dangerous man by night. He is methodical, ruthless, and completely in control of everything around him. When he sees Lexi fight, he doesn't just see a way to collect a debt. He sees something he hasn't encountered in a very long time. Someone who doesn't want anything from him. The deal is simple: Lexi fights in The Undertow's underground circuit until her father's debt is cleared. She lives under Damon's roof, moves in his world, belongs to him. And in return, her family stays safe. It should be transactional. It should be temporary. It should never become anything else. ⫷ ⫸ ⫷ ⫸ ⫷ ⫸ ⫷ ⫸ ⫷ ⫸ ⫷ ⫸ COLLATERAL is an enemies-to-lovers dark romance about two people who would destroy themselves to protect the ones they love, and what happens when they become that person for each other.
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