They say the devil's in the details.
Isadora Navarro knows the devil keeps perfect ledgers.
At twenty-six, Izzy is the best forensic accountant in the country, a cold-eyed savior who rips predatory lenders apart and frees families from drowning in medical debt. She's untouchable. Unbreakable.
Until the day she's hired to audit a company that doesn't officially exist, and discovers her own name at the top of its assets column.
Every hospital bill from her dead brother. Every hospital bills from her bedridden mother with cancer. Every funeral expense for her father.
Every tear she ever cried over money now belongs to a single entity: C.V.
Cassian Vale is a ghost in the financial world, a man whose face hasn't been photographed in fifteen years, whose net worth is a rumor too terrifying to print. He lives in a black-glass fortress on a private island at the edge of the world, surrounded by first editions bound in human skin and silence. And for nearly a decade, he has been watching her.
He offers her one escape: marry him for exactly 999 days.
Live in his house.
Sleep in his bed when he commands it.
Survive the contract, and every debt she has ever carried, hers, her mother's, her friends', even the boy who shattered her heart in high school, will vanish. She'll walk away richer than she could ever be.
But there is only one rule she must never break: If her heart ever admits it belongs to him before day 999, the debt doubles… and she becomes his.
Forever.
Cassian doesn't want her body. He doesn't even want her love, at least, that's what he tells himself. What he wants is to own the one thing she has spent her entire life trying to annihilate: the guilt, the shame, the terror of owing.
He wants to watch the woman who destroys debt finally kneel to it.
But Izzy has never lost a fight in her life.
And Cassian has never met anyone who could make the devil beg.
A 999-day marriage.
A ontract between two contrasting souls.
And a love so forbidden it comes with interest, compounded daily, payable in screams.
Some debts can never be repaid.
Some devils never let you go.
THE DEVIL'S LEDGER