The Man Who Bought My Name

Marisol Aguilar's student debt was bought by a stranger when she was twenty-one. She finds out who at her job interview. Cormac Dunne is fifty-three, polite, and owns a third of the city through paperwork nobody else can read. He tells her he bought the debt because he wanted her brain — then hands her a ledger in a dialect no translator in the city can touch. She should run. Instead she starts fixing his books where he can't see, and Cormac Dunne does not like being corrected. But he also doesn't fire her. He promotes her. When the cartel he's absorbing finds out who cleaned the pages, they come to the house at night. And the man who bought her name takes a bullet for it. A dark bully mafia age gap romance about a woman who takes the job, the money, and the man — in that order.