Binding the Hollow King

Tessa 'Hex' Marlowe does not believe in fairy tales. She believes in her club, her bike, and the patch on her back — until a fae debt collector kills her president and rides out of this world with his soul. Hex follows him through a highway ward into Hollowgate Academy, a school that trains the enforcers who did the killing. The only way to the collector is through the academy's ward network, and the only person who knows the routes is Kade Ardent: an expelled fae heir working off a debt as a courier, with a grudge the courts would love to erase. They build a fake student life by day and run debt jobs by night, one step behind a killer who turns out to be the school itself. To bring her president home, Hex will have to ride the ward network raw, expose the warden's soul ledger to every court that bought from him, and trust a fae who left his own world behind.