Sworn to the Capo

Marisol Ibarra was not invited to Veradi Academy. She was enrolled — selected by hand by Aleksi Duran, thirty-six, capo, and the man who holds her dead brother's debt. She has two years of school and one job: graduate, and pay what her family owes. Then a girl in her dorm is found dead in the solarium, and the school calls it a seizure. Marisol knows better. She answered the girl's last letter. Every question she asks pulls her closer to the man who owns her future, and every meeting with Aleksi Duran makes the debt feel less like a bill and more like a vow. She can walk out at gradution with nothing, or she can prove she's worth keeping — and burn the school down to do it.