Marian Black

He uncovered their secrets. Now he belongs to them.

Wren Halloran is meticulous, careful, invisible — exactly the kind of financial analyst who notices when the numbers are too clean. Eleven weeks of quiet investigation into a shadowy shipping empire, and he is ready to bring it all to light. Then a phone call lures him somewhere he should...

Caelum of the Aurelian Reach has spent fourteen years as the senior envoy to dragon courts. He is good at his work. He is, on the whole, a man who has stopped expecting his life to surprise him. When his family finalizes his political marriage to the young dragon prince Vaeryn of the Vaelkir Spires, he prepares — with the careful diplomatic...

Lorenzo Castellani has been don of the Castellani family for thirteen years. He has hired his rutmates through the same vetted agency for ten of them.

Elia Greco has been working for the agency for two years. He is good at his job, careful with his clients, and unfailingly clean about the boundary between his body and his life.

He has, in those...