The Widow's Debt

Konstantin Reznik hasn't set foot in his father's house in twenty-nine years. He comes back for the funeral to sell it. His father's third wife is in the kitchen at six in the morning. Nessa Reyes is twenty-three, widowed six days, and cannot leave — the will gives her the house and every debt attached to it, and the debts are owed to men Konstantin spent his whole adult life outrunning. Three weeks. Opposite wings. A shared kitchen with negotiated hours. And an attic containing a ledger in his father's handwriting that names every man the old man ruined. Nessa finds it before he does. She hands it to him and leaves the room, so he can decide alone. An age gap bratva stepbrother romance about a burnt ledger, an unpayable debt, and a man who stays anyway.