Three Ghosts and a Debt
READING AGE 16+
The first thing Milo Grant learns about Andie Marsh is that she doesn't want to be saved.
He's eighteen, unbound, and one haunted exam away from a red file. She has her own debts in Halcyon and no patience for a boy who turns every insult into leverage. They start as a working alliance: one job, one secret, one name kept out of the paperwork. It stays working because neither of them can afford for it to be anything else.
Milo wants enough leverage to stay enrolled and enough money to keep three bound ghosts from becoming a public problem. Andie wants her own account settled without becoming someone else's collateral. The ghosts have demands. The families above them have longer memories than the law.
This is an urban fantasy with a sharp edge, not a soft romance. The tension is in the obligation: who gets saved, who gets used, and who pays.
I wrote it for readers who like their ghosts with a bill attached.
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The needle went in and the vein rolled away from it.
He pulled back and pressed gauze down with two fingers. The gauze came up clean. He held it there a second longer than he needed to.
"Sorry," he said. "The scarring. It changes the map."
That part was true.
She lay still wi……
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