All Hail the Accountant

Victor Lane’s lieutenant forces Ryan Ashe’s finger toward the blade—until Ivy Crowe crashes through the window and knocks him away. But the family spy doesn’t save Ryan out of mercy; she was sent to watch him die. Exiled to a bankrupt northern hold, Ryan is supposed to be a worthless heir with the family’s most useless gift: Precision Ledger. Instead, he can see every stolen coin, predict every market, and turn debts, trade routes, and taxes into weapons deadlier than magic. Ivy is ordered to expose his secrets, yet each ruthless move draws her closer to the man she was meant to destroy—and makes her question which side she truly belongs to. With enemy soldiers closing in and Ryan’s finger still bleeding from the blade, Ivy must choose: betray her family and stand beside the “waste” who is rewriting the rules of power—or leave him to die before his ledger brings the entire noble world to its knees.