Kiss the Traitor

Three years ago Sol Almeida gave testimony that put a Corso in federal prison and bought himself a Bellhollow scholarship and a campus-wide silence. He's fine with it. He has his seminars, his part-time library job, and no one who will sit next to him in the dining hall. Then Mateo Corso transfers in, sits next to him anyway, and asks about the weather like a man who has been briefed. Mateo doesn't want revenge. He wants names, and Sol is the only one left who can give them. What starts as a mutual hostage situation conducted in a seminar room becomes something neither of them admits to until the day an execution order crosses a desk and Mateo has to decide, in writing, what Sol is to him. The answer costs the family everything it thought it owned.