Riftbound Debtbreaker

The debt collector's knife was an inch from Jace's throat when the city's hidden power lines exploded into his vision—and the woman who stepped out of the dark wasn't there to save him. Mina Wen, banished medic with blood on her hands and ice in her voice, gave him one choice: work with her to crack open a sealed tower, or let every faction in Copperfall hunt him down for the ability he didn't know he had. She needed his eyes to see the lines. He needed her routes to survive the night. But every lock they opened dragged them closer—physically, dangerously close—and every secret they pried loose pointed to the same impossible truth: Jace had been inside that tower before. She swore she'd use him and walk away. He swore he'd take what he needed and run. Neither of them expected the way her breath hitched when he traced the scar on her wrist, or the way he stopped pulling away when she whispered his real name in the dark. The tower door opened by itself, and a child's voice said, "Welcome back"—but the man stepping through wasn't the one who walked in.