Collector's Collateral

Naomi inherits more than grief when her husband dies. She inherits his crushing debt to an underground syndicate—and the man sent to collect it.Brice doesn't want the money.He wants her.He moves into her house under the guise of protecting the collateral, then systematically dismantles every piece of independence she has left. New locks. New rules. Her passwords. Her paycheck. Her choices. All of it filtered through him until the only safety she has left is the one with teeth.He is patient.He is relentless.And he is the reason her husband never made it home.As the walls close in and the line between captivity and belonging begins to blur, Naomi is forced to confront a darker truth: the man who ruined her life might be the only one who can keep her alive inside it.A dark, obsessive romance about power, possession, and the kind of safety that leaves marks.