Renting the Don

Marisol Vega manages a ninety-six unit apartment complex in Kissimmee that she has been quietly running more honestly than the deed deserves. Twelve of those units are off the books, rented to people who needed a door with no paperwork. When the family sends Teodoro Salazar down from Newark to audit the property, Marisol has three days to make twelve people disappear. He finds the ledger in an afternoon. He does not fire her. He signs a lease on 8B, moves in with a duffel bag and a landline, and starts showing up in the laundry room at seven in the morning. He's forty-eight. He's the man her rent goes to. He's also, it turns out, the only person in Florida who agrees with her about the roof. Then his ex-wife's brother arrives with movers and a new manager, and Teo has to choose between the family he came from and the building he was sent to audit.