The Debt

She was the king's wife. He was the widower thirty-six minutes away. They were never supposed to meet. Never supposed to want each other. And definitely never supposed to fall - the wife for the son, the widower for the daughter - into the one secret that could destroy them all. When the truth explodes in open court, love won't be enough. It'll cost everything. A scorching, suspenseful romance about the price of passion - and the people willing to pay it.

Kira Bell has spent twenty years as the queen beside Deandre "King" Bell - until the night everything shatters and her husband is taken away in handcuffs, facing a trial that could end with the death penalty. Thirty-six minutes away, wealthy widower Stephen is still grieving Tina, the wife he lost to a stranger's bullet, raising his eighteen-year-old son Sean alone.

When Kira hires Sean to tutor her eighteen-year-old daughter Maya - a gifted dancer with Broadway dreams - two grieving families collide. What begins as lessons and long summer afternoons becomes something neither household can survive unscathed: a forbidden pull between Maya and Stephen, and a dangerous heat between Kira and Sean. Four people. Two houses. One secret that could burn them all to the ground.

As Deandre's trial approaches and the evidence tightens around him, the lies start to crack - and the truth, when it finally explodes in open court, will demand payment from everyone.

THE DEBT is a scorching, suspenseful romance about forbidden love, family secrets, and the price of passion. For readers who like their love stories hot, their suspense sharp, and their endings earned. 18+ only.