The City Keeps Score

Jace Vale wakes in a morgue with a bullet hole gone—and a black ledger hovering where no one else can see it. Every lie, beating, and blood debt adds to his balance, but the men who murdered him are already coming to collect. Then Mara Quinn, the corporation’s ice-cold audit hunter, presses a gun to his throat and gives him one choice: help her find the city’s hidden bookkeeper, or be handed back to his killers. Forced to hide together, Jace must conceal the ledger’s growing power while resisting the one woman who sees through every lie he tells. But Mara’s investigation is closing in on the debt that got him killed—the same secret she may have been sent to bury. Now the ledger has named its next payment: Mara’s own audit office. Will Jace use its power to save the woman hunting him, or cash in her life to settle the debt that brought him back?