The Ledger of Stolen Brides

Tamsin Okafor audits shipping manifests. That's how she notices eleven brides billed as freight on a flight that doesn't exist — and how she ends up in the mountain lodge of three brothers who collect what's owed. Anselm keeps the ledger. Ru keeps the perimeter. Cass keeps the kitchen and the keys. They don't hurt her. They don't have to. The ledger says she's collateral for debts her own father accrued half a galaxy away. So Tamsin does the only thing they haven't anticipated. She asks to close the book herself. Six weeks, one syndicate, and an interplanetary court later, the debts are cleared — and the lodge has a new deed. One name on the title. Three signatures beneath it. None of them collateral.