Dear Hayven Valls

Hayven Mitchell Valls left Boston two years ago with nothing but a ticket to Paris and the hope that distance could cure the kind of loneliness that lives in her heart. She studied literature, she kept to herself, and she almost convinced herself she was fine. She was bending herself into shapes that fit other people's expectations.

Then her parents called.

One phone call. One flight back. And within days, everything she thought she knew about her family is gone, replaced by blood-stained walls, a brother behind bars, and a debt.

Her Brother, Eli Valls, sits in a prison cell accused of murdering their parents - parents who, as far as the world is concerned, are dead. Hayven knows Eli didn't do it, but how would she confess that to the world?

And then Aleksandr Trevance comes into the Game. Twenty-nine. Head of the Trevance Bratva. Sarcastic, ruthless, and infuriatingly honest in a world built on deception. He doesn't want her fear. He wants what her parents owed him, Seven thousand reasons she can't walk away. To much money.

Some debts are paid in money. Some are paid in blood. And some, the ones no one warns you about, are paid in the pieces of yourself you didn't know you were giving away.